> I think it's the culture in which those large projects were developed. Definitely you can keep your Perl under control with a strict(ish) culture but that te

> I think it's the culture in which those large projects were developed. Definitely you can keep your Perl under control with a strict(ish) culture but that tends to be the kind of culture Perl acolytes traditionally chafe against. I do somewhat blame the "there's more than one way to do it" Perl culture - that definitely encourages a, uh, "cowboy" approach to development that I've seen a lot in Perl houses (compared with, e.g., the Go houses that I now deal with because Go has a definite "one way to do it" culture.) But yeah, pretty much any language can be twisted into a monstrosity if you let the devs run wild.