Nothing you said actually differs from what I said. I spent seven years as a Perl programmer. Like Perl, a language can be extremely productive in the hands of

Nothing you said actually differs from what I said. I spent seven years as a Perl programmer. Like Perl, a language can be extremely productive in the hands of a veteran and dangerous with a newcomer due to the unnecessary confusion it generates. At least eq and == are syntactically easier to grok than == and ===.