[vultour]

Nobody complaining about Perl's syntax is complaining about the "C style". Reading the arcane incantations of magical $ variables gets really old really fast, Perl takes the "if it was hard to figure out then the code must be hard to read" to a whole new level. It's probably the only mainstream non-functional language where you can be absolutely unable to decypher a snippet of code even though you know another C-like language.