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people don't use them correctly doesn't mean it's a bad language.
Yeah. Blame the victim.
Befunge is a tool, the fact you can't use it correctly doesn't mean it's a bad language.
When faced with criticism, all Perl apologists spit generic arguments, starting with banal ad-hominem, which speak for themselves: "all languages are turing complete", "languages are just tools", "no language is perfect", "good developers can write good code in any language", "Perl was never intended to solve problem X", "Perl isn't the problem, bad programmers are", "products X was built using Perl, so Perl is good enough", "there are two kinds of languages: the ones complained about and the ones nobody uses", "Perl is free, hosting is available, PHP programmers are cheap", "clients don't care what language is used", "Perl has great community, we are like family", "if you do X then problem Y would be less noticeable", and a myriad of variations. The best examples of Perl apologetics, like
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4177516 , contain gems in the lines of "Sometimes you don't care if a function succeeds" - in other words, Perl community doesn't care if their code succeeds.