I programmed in Perl 5 for several years. Ugh. That language was hard to read, and some of the features (list vs. scalar context, for example) were awful. I hav

I programmed in Perl 5 for several years. Ugh. That language was hard to read, and some of the features (list vs. scalar context, for example) were awful. I have never wanted to write another Perl program. Capable, but painful to maintain.