Good thing I gave up Perl5 years ago (after 15 years) and switched to Python. I can't even read the new Perl code, it's so obtuse. Now I like Python, it's much

Good thing I gave up Perl5 years ago (after 15 years) and switched to Python. I can't even read the new Perl code, it's so obtuse. Now I like Python, it's much easier to parse because there aren't 1000 ways to do a simple thing. Perl was a write only language. What I liked about Perl when I started using it was dictionaries, lists, regexes and CPAN. Coming from a statically typed language like C or Pascal it was freedom. Writing modules was weird, objects weird - so that meant messy code. And when they did implement something, it was always a sophisticated flavor of some rarely used programming concepts.