My huge problem with Perl is readability. Sometimes, across teams, there are just too many ways of doing some simple thing and one is plain perl code to one per

My huge problem with Perl is readability. Sometimes, across teams, there are just too many ways of doing some simple thing and one is plain perl code to one person, is a 5-minute and stare at this line hack to another. I, personally, haven't noticed this happening any more in large Perl projects than with any other language. Yes they happen but, like with other languages, they're usually opportunities for team members to learn one thing or the other (either "this is what this does" or "please write comprehensible code to the rest of the team" depending ;-)