I have 0 familiarity with Perl 4, and some(but not a lot) of familiarity with Perl 5(I have maintained Perl, I don't ever use it for a new project). What makes

I have 0 familiarity with Perl 4, and some(but not a lot) of familiarity with Perl 5(I have maintained Perl, I don't ever use it for a new project). What makes you call it an abomination? I'm not a big fan of the language, but I have no idea why it'd be worse than Perl 4.