> How much Perl code "in the wild" uses those best practices? Not enough. Consider this, though: how much Perl code "in the wild" is the result of programming

> How much Perl code "in the wild" uses those best practices? Not enough. Consider this, though: how much Perl code "in the wild" is the result of programming novices who learned just enough Perl to do a job without actually having to learn how to program or how to write Perl code well or how to write maintainable code? I suspect that it's far more than you might think. If that's true, then the complaint is that Perl is too easy to write.