My opinion about Perl went from "It's hideous" to "It's okay". I tried to learn Perl by just reading code, like I'd learned several other languages (Fortran to

My opinion about Perl went from "It's hideous" to "It's okay". I tried to learn Perl by just reading code, like I'd learned several other languages (Fortran to Pascal to C). I finally read the Camel book. On page 83 it said "Everything in Perl happens in a context. Until you learn this you will be miserable." I was.