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This idea that all approaches are equally valid is at least as harmful as the belief that Python is in any way Nazi-like about indentation. If you don't want to use any, you don't have to.
The only reason anyone uses Perl is that they learned it back when it was the only option, and now pretend that nothing else could possibly be better because they're no longer confident that they could learn anything else. Or, of course, because they stupidly took advice from these people.