Perl looks ugly to novices?

I thought the whole point of Perl was that there were so many ways to code something, there's always a way to make the code look elegant.
From Larry Wall:
Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.
This contrasts languages like Ruby which basically encourage/force you  to do things a specific way.

Just read this quote
I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_
Except you never have to use $_ in the first place. It's always a choice

In conclusion, people who don't like Perl don't know how to use it.

>>40
Isn't the point of the thread that the abuse in unreadable macros is a choice?

skip to perl6 already!

>>42
not a single implementation!

>>32
No, you fuck off.

>>44
No, >>32 is correct, you really need to fuck off

>>45
Why?

You fuck off.

>>45
This might surprise the readers, but >>45 is >>32 but >>44 is not >>30
Kindly fuck off hymie.

>>41
If so, as long as it is readable, and comprehensible, I am all for it. We do not want to make the mess that the RSA Perl decrypt script is:
http://www.cypherspace.org/rsa/

night! I was drunk when I made >>40 , I yield my apologies for my butchered English