> > Perl suffers from wanting to be any number of things, and by adding > > extra complexity and indirection to achieve it. It guesses what you > > want. It has stupid interpolation defaults, but you can't bypass them.
> There's a difference between hating software because it it doesn't make > sense to you, and hating it because it doesn't make sense. The problem with Perl is not that it doesn't make sense, because it does... it makes sense in the manner of poetry, with brilliant puns buried in every line, and ferreting them all out means hours of play. Seen as a work of art, Perl is James Joyce and John Donne, Milton and Don Maquis, and Shakespeare throwing in a brace of dirty limericks to salt the pot.
