When I first started writing perl professionally, I kept trying to write things in a lispy functional style, which only made a mess. While it's true that There

When I first started writing perl professionally, I kept trying to write things in a lispy functional style, which only made a mess. While it's true that There Is More Than One Way To Do It, there's still such a thing as "perlish perl" and by adopting this style I ended up writing some very pleasant and easy to read code.