[EdwardDiego]

> I guess that bottom line of what I am trying to say is that not all perl code is unreadable crap. That has more to do with the writer than the language. And, different languages make different things easier.

I would agree. It's the same issue Scala faces IMO - it doesn't have to be a complex maze of types and implicit conversions and implicit values, you can, if disciplined, write very understandable and clear Scala.

Sadly though, it seems a lot of developers aren't disciplined.

[mst]

With great power comes great capacity to write overly clever unmaintainable crap.