Your statement is pretty clear, which is useful as far as it goes. But it's also wrong, and that's pretty significant too. 1. I like Perl. 2. Imo, if someone

Your statement is pretty clear, which is useful as far as it goes. But it's also wrong, and that's pretty significant too. 1. I like Perl. 2. Imo, if someone doesn't see advantages to TSBOAPOOOWTDI then they don't understand it -- and the same is true of TIMTOWTDI, TIMTOWTDIBSCINABTE, and many other useful generalizations. 3. I love readable code. I think the above three statements also apply to Larry Wall (the creator of Perl) and many others in the Perl community. Imo "Someone who likes Perl is not going to be appreciative of 'one way to do something' and 'readable code'." is not a useful generalization. If the universe applied different rules to me than everyone else I might advise folk to take any opinion from someone who generalizes without sufficient respect for the dangers of generalization as coming from someone who generalizes without sufficient respect for the dangers of generalization. But it doesn't, so I won't. :)