>> My main issue with Perl-scripts is that they often are not "readable" by anybody but the original creator.

Anyone writing Perl scripts like this should not be trusted with any programming language.

Perl scripts are no less readable than bash scripts or Awk scripts. This is because so much of Perl was written to do the same work as bash, awk, sed, and the other related Unix text processing command line programs, but all under one roof.

Don't believe me? Take a look yourself:

https://learn.perl.org/

http://blob.perl.org/books/impatient-perl/iperl.htm

Perl can also be hilariously unreadable: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_3/tpj0403-0017.html

>> Perl can also be hilariously unreadable: https://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_3/tpj0403-0017.html

Most programming languages can be obfuscated. That does not mean people write code in those programming languages like that:

C: https://www.ioccc.org/

Javascript: view-source:https://www.google.com/

The truth is that insulting Perl is considered stylish by some, so many people do despite knowing little to nothing about Perl and having never used it.

However, if you want Perl to be hilariously unreadable, why not write it in Latin:

https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...

Or Klingon:

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

This. I'm tired of these Gen-Z ers babbling about Perl and having no idea of what a proper Perl based project would look. Hint: most Debian tools and OpenBSD's package manager are Perl based.

It's like when we, Gen-X ers, were repeating bad stuff about COBOL without having seen a single line of it.

Then I saw a real COBOL program and... well... it was even worse than what I had imagined :-)

Perl has both oneliners/spaggethi code and games like Pangzero.

I've always found it weird that people bash on Perl relentlessly for being hard to read and then turn around and praise Rust's syntax when it is full of stuff like this:

    fn print_d(t: &'static impl Display) {