[karthikv]

Python says "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

But Perl says "There's more than one way to do it."

[ivankirigin]

It is a bad thing if the obvious choice isn't the best choice. Leaves me wondering what other ways to do things in perl seem obvious, but are horrible ideas.

[karthikv]

I think the "other ways" might not always be horrible ideas. It just leads to messy, unreadable code. Of course, its upto the programmer to write readable code.