[wastholm]

Perl aims to be an enabler, and is therefore not particularly opinionated ("there is more than one way to do it"). This includes making little to no effort to make it hard to write difficult-to-read code.

Personally, I don't tend to have a hard time reading code I myself wrote, even long after the fact. But I will concede that Perl code _can be_ hard to read if the author has been too clever.