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.

>>11
Sorry but you obviously have no real world experience with Perl. CPAN committers and real perl programmers (not the COOP student you and your breathern are) program perl which can use a variety tricks and still be maintainable and readable. It sounds like you've never dealt with a program over the size of 30KLOC.

Damien Conway's new style guide helps newbies get up to speed. Perl doesn't restrict you but if you want to work with others you might have to restrict yourself.

If you really think Ruby and Python are so much different you're obviously blind. They are basically 1 to 1 with perl.

Again /prog/ losers fail it.