[bsder]

> Looking at the long term contributors, readable or un-readable code seems to be more about the person than the language.

The biggest problem I have with Perl is like C++, the language is so stupidly big that every single programmer knows a different subset of the language.

I used to bump into this problem when I was interviewing for VLSI jobs and somebody would always do the "Let's talk about Perl" round. I was quite fluent at Perl at the time, and there would ALWAYS be some idiom that would stump me.

I solved this by bringing my own Perl program on a printout with me--I also brought the Python version of the same program with me. Suddenly, the interviewer was in MY subset of Perl and almost always went "Oh, you're a lot better at Perl and programming than I am" instead of dinging me for not knowing weird Perl trivia.