[Grishnakh]

>8) Even if regexs are not needed, inevitably the perl dev will use them since that's the perl hammer, and it's hard to know what the intention is with regexes or what the source data even looks like

I'm going to disagree with this one. There's lots of things in any language where it can be hard to see, at a glance, what the intention of the programmer was. That's why we have commenting. You're supposed to comment your blocks of code so that someone else can look at it and understand what that block of code is supposed to do.

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell by looking at other people's code, I appear to be one of the only programmers on the planet who actually uses comments....

[paulryanrogers]

Ideally the code itself should communicate that intent. And comments can become obsolete as code changes. Hence the movement to reduce comments to only what's necessary.