> Perl […] incredibly terse (perhaps too much so) I used to like Perl, but I found it hard work at times not to create something that, without ample commenting

> Perl […] incredibly terse (perhaps too much so) I used to like Perl, but I found it hard work at times not to create something that, without ample commenting which arguably removes a lot of the benefit of terseness, even I wouldn't understand without some thought when looking at it a few months down the line. Perl was (is? - I assume it is still used a fair bit) often referred to as a write-only programming language for this reason.