Perl is the worst language I had the displeasure to work with and I’m glad it’s basically dead. The thing I hated most about it was that it had several ways to

Perl is the worst language I had the displeasure to work with and I’m glad it’s basically dead. The thing I hated most about it was that it had several ways to the same thing, which made it extremely hard to read code because you had to understand the nuances and could cause bugs. For example I vaguely remember that Perl had 2 ways to specify “or” but they had different preferences. The fact that scalars and vectors had different namespaces meant that you could get absurd looking code like $a[$a]. I’m glad that Perl is all but dead.