[didip]

Everything you loved about Perl is exactly why I hate it.

The syntax noise is too great and it has too many ways for people to be too clever with it.

[rootusrootus]

I totally agree. That's why I loved it for me, but hated it if I ever had to deal with someone else's code. And why I never use it any more, unless I'm doing a bunch of text processing on my own workstation.