>> Perl is what you want it to be. You can make it readable or unreadable. There's Perl code out there that looks like C and Perl code out there that looks like Brainfuck.

Or Latin:

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Lingua-Romana-Perligat...

Or Klingon:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun

Or Poetry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl

Perl could be considered too flexible.