I'm a Perl fan, and I'll be the first to admit that something about Perl makes it easier to write idiosyncratic code that the writer understands, but the mainta

I'm a Perl fan, and I'll be the first to admit that something about Perl makes it easier to write idiosyncratic code that the writer understands, but the maintainer may not. The almost fanatical adherence to an official idiom one sees in Python is almost wholly lacking in Perl.