This article touches on something that I really enjoyed about (the early days) of Perl 5, and I think it may body well for the future of the language. You coul

This article touches on something that I really enjoyed about (the early days) of Perl 5, and I think it may body well for the future of the language. You could write Perl 5 like it was just a better Perl 4. All of the craziness with modules and references was hidden to you if you wanted to write a Perl 4-esque script that needed to talk to a database or do something else that you could find a module in for in CPAN. The people would wrote those modules, God help them, I don't know how they managed to write the executable line noise that was in the source, but I didn't care. I could get my job done with a few simple `use` statements.