[gkya]

Certainly in Python it is easier to read the code, that is find individual lexemes and say what statements do. But thus does not necessarily mean mean it's any easier to reason about the algorithm and to say what a series of statements do. I'd thus rather talk about the readability if individual snippets and not if a language in general. Certainly there are some languages which impede the programmer to interpret the program, but Perl is not one of them.