"Unrolling @" was a common bugbear amongst Perl programmers and caused a few I know of to leave for Ruby or Python. Normal, parenthesised parameters were consid

"Unrolling @" was a common bugbear amongst Perl programmers and caused a few I know of to leave for Ruby or Python. Normal, parenthesised parameters were considered experimental until not that long ago so is it any wonder Perl failed to compete with Ruby and Python?