> I have heard : Perl is hard to understand after you write the code. So is about any other language, it all depends on who was writing the code. This particul

> I have heard : Perl is hard to understand after you write the code. So is about any other language, it all depends on who was writing the code. This particular opinion stems from all the non-programmers writing hacky Perl scripts in '90s. The fact that regexps are language primitive doesn't help, because they were often abused in those scripts and it takes time and/or proficiency to decipher and analyze them.