Perl isn't difficult, it's just quirky: Perl OO: In Perl classes are called "packages". There are no private methods or private members, everything is mutable.

Perl isn't difficult, it's just quirky: Perl OO: In Perl classes are called "packages". There are no private methods or private members, everything is mutable. Sigils: @foo is an array, %foo is a hash, but $foo can either be a string (scalar), a number, a reference to hash, a reference to an array, a reference to a function, or a reference to an object. Built-in functions that operate on arrays (push, pop, foreach) do not accept references to arrays, unless put an @ sigil in front: pop $foo <-- WRONG! pop @$foo <-- Oh sure, OK! Lots of special variables: $ in combination with just about any other non alpha character means something in perl. The most often abused is $_, the default variable. Libraries and package files have to end with 1; or return some non-zero value. So sure, plenty of quirks of to learn, but so every lanaguage.