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I often hear that, but I have yet to see it. Maybe it's because of the quality of the coders I associate myself with, or maybe I've never dealt with a large enough Perl codebase. So I'm not convinced.
I'll happily point out the stupidities in Perl's syntax, and some of its semantics, but readability outside regex... no.
If I wanted to bitch about readability, I'd start with Python. The language itself is great, but its community has too many dolts who don't believe in comments or documentation. No other language community seems to suffer this affliction, even the ones who also take agile coding seriously. Other than Ruby. Go figure.