[yjftsjthsd-h]

> that's entirely a function of the developer.

I would argue the same of sed/awk; you can write an unmaintainable mess, but you don't have to.

[BaseballPhysics]

Oh sure. IME Perl just pulls it all together into a much more convenient, all-in-one package that has all the libraries and tools you need to build anything from small scripts all the way up to large projects.