FUCKIN PERL

no, the parser fucking blows.           
 you can't do this:
 print $fds[$i] "Perl sucks\n";       
 even if $fds[$i] is a valid fd. because either Perl's
              parser sucks, or  Perl's grammar sucks.

>>7
Truth

>>8
Perl is not practical or efficient for the developer (i.e. productive) because maintenance is a fucking bitch. Even if you can get away without using the fugly shit, you'll always have to deal with others' code unless you're a kid that pretends to be a programmer.

Array functions are nice, but every new scripting language has a better syntax than Perl. The fact nobody else does it is no excuse to do it in a lame way.

>>9
Perl actually has more rules with all that DWIM shit and ambiguity to solve.