Re: Write-only Perl (Off-Topic) (Score 1)

Perl is write-only because TIMTOWTDI means that oftentimes code not written by you will do things in ways that you never thought of and thus be completely incomprehensible.

TIMTOWTDI is opposed to orthagonality. It makes it easy to learn how to do new things, but makes things harder to maintain.

This isn't anything that can't be overcome with good comments and uniform coding style (ie: everyone in a group using the same methods), but it is a definite tendency in any language that gives you more than one way to do common tasks (this is true of C++ also).

IMHO.
YMMV.

ps: my email address isn't real.