[kamaal]

I've noticed that most folks who default to Perl tend to write Perl in a manner largely inconsistent with the next guy's.

I don't know how 'Perl crowd' is a distinct set of people. Speaking of programmers in general. If a group/person have/has bad habits/practices. That's going to spill over to any language they/he is ever going to use.

No single language is an exception to this. By the way yesterday there was thread going on about how some one lost all his changes because he didn't commit his code regularly and blamed the problem squarely on git.

Now here is the problem, how would have any other VCS saved from making this mistake. Languages do very little to influence a person habits.

Besides there isn't a single language on earth today in which you can't write bad code.