Correct, because good luck trying to figure out what the hell someone else's Perl program is doing later. I used to spend up to 40 hours in a Perl debugger try

Correct, because good luck trying to figure out what the hell someone else's Perl program is doing later. I used to spend up to 40 hours in a Perl debugger trying to figure out what the program is doing, and after going 25 layers deep into the call stack, I'd come out one week later none the wiser as to what that damn spaghetti code was doing. Tracking down any bug would always turn into debugging of epic proportions. I never had such problems debugging machine code! That is why Perl gets so much hate. My favorite construct to hate was going through the logic and just as I was about finished trying to understand the state machine at that point hitting an unless{} clause which instantaneously wipes the slate clean. Oh how I hate Perl.