What the hell are you talking about? The only "weird" symbols you need for writing day-to-day perl code are the sigils. The only punctuation you need to use are

What the hell are you talking about? The only "weird" symbols you need for writing day-to-day perl code are the sigils. The only punctuation you need to use are things that are already well-established in basic math and other very traditional programming languages: commas (list building), exclamation marks (negation), question marks (branching), colons and semicolons (statement ending).