> In perl you not only have to contend many times with ugly code, on top of that it might be written in a way that is completely alien from the way you would wr

> In perl you not only have to contend many times with ugly code, on top of that it might be written in a way that is completely alien from the way you would write it. After seeing code which used files on disk because the author either didn't understand or trust arrays, I've come to the conclusion that code not designed and written and tested specifically with maintainability in mind will quickly become a big ball of mud, independent of language. Perhaps certain languages offer syntactic tricks for obfuscation and cleverness in the small, but the mindset that prefers cleverness over maintainability will always be able to perpetuate great evils throughout a codebase.