Perl can be readable. However its wide and varied language features make it easy to make it unreadable. I have nothing against Perl used in good hands by good p

Perl can be readable. However its wide and varied language features make it easy to make it unreadable. I have nothing against Perl used in good hands by good people but that can't always be guaranteed. The unless operator is the example of one tiny special case (of an if statement) that got its own built-in. My feeling is that unless you have a number of very good usage cases for a feature and it greatly saves time and energy it should not be added as a built-in to the language. It all comes down to this: Perl doesn't have a "Right Way"(TM) of doing things. Many people (perhaps yourself) feel that this is a good thing. I simply believe the opposite.