The problem with perl is that perl programmers think they can replace thousands of lines of C with 50 line perl programs. Then you find errors like searching thru multicolumns of data for a string, when in fact what you wanted is to search column six only. It 'works' until someone uses that string in column 2. Etc. I switched to haskell a long time ago. It still shocks me that people especially in the chip and computer industry still depend on it so much.