I pulled a copy of Perl Best Practices off a shelf of free books the other week, and have been wishing I had bought a copy when it came out. It is easy to writ

I pulled a copy of Perl Best Practices off a shelf of free books the other week, and have been wishing I had bought a copy when it came out. It is easy to write truly awful code in Perl. But if you've never seen truly awful code in any other language, you've lived a sheltered life.