That's the time frame I'm talking about. Everyone got bent out of shape over Perl's sigils and built-in variables, but if you memorized the 20 most useful ones

That's the time frame I'm talking about. Everyone got bent out of shape over Perl's sigils and built-in variables, but if you memorized the 20 most useful ones they save an enormous amount of time. If you name your subroutines appropriately and keep them short, code will be readable no matter what. Modern node is far worse than Perl ever was: const foo = async () => {}