True, it's very easy to make your code unreadable but other languages have the same drawback too. I would never pick it as the language for team projects. But w

True, it's very easy to make your code unreadable but other languages have the same drawback too. I would never pick it as the language for team projects. But with Perl you can really pack a lot of power into each line of code. It's hard to beat for scripting.