Lots of bad code was written in Perl by people who didn't know how to program. This is a feature, though. Tons of valuable software was created with the assis

Lots of bad code was written in Perl by people who didn't know how to program. This is a feature, though. Tons of valuable software was created with the assistance of a language that attempts to get things done more than it tries to hold people to the implementor's dogma.