Perl isn’t difficult in the same way that the English lnguage isn’t difficult. Easy to get started with, takes a long time to master. Fortunately for us die har

Perl isn’t difficult in the same way that the English lnguage isn’t difficult. Easy to get started with, takes a long time to master. Fortunately for us die hard perl types it’s quite capable of cleanly solving all normal dynamic language problems, and some seriously abnormal ones. And because of the insanely good backcompat in perl we’ll see the pendulum swing back to perl 5 some time in the next decade.