You've been lucky, then. I love Perl, but there are so many ways to do it you're bound to run into someone who does something in an entirely different way than you. The worst experience I had with this was a colleague who knew the entire Camel book by heart and insisted on using every damn trick there was. He was fired very quickly as the code he produced was impossible for a more normal person to understand

Your anecdote implies that we judge the language by its worst user :)