I agree that chromatic is not the best test case; he has published a lot about Perl, and his code examples are very readable.

However, it is possible to right miserably bad code in a variety of languages. The Perl that one finds (for example) on CPAN is generally straightforward and understandable. One can write lucid and powerful Perl.

And I have no trouble understanding any of the sentences of the parent comment. Is your complaint that the verb "indicate" falls after the clause it refers to?