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Perl

I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on Perl, except to say that it is by far the most exotic and esoteric languages I have ever programmed in. I will say that I do not like Perl's style, and through the years I have tried to get interested in it more than a few times. I prefer Python's straight-foward approach, and feel that Perl's saying should actually read: "There's More Than One Way To Do It" Wrong. Perl gives the programmer far too many options. For programs to be maintainable, quickly developed, and easily read, there needs to be a strict structure for the programmer to abide by. A brilliant Jazz performer, Branford Marsalis, once said "There's no freedom in freedom - there's freedom in structure."

Beyond that, many others have expressed both Perl's benefits and problems far more eloquently than I can, or did. I'll be posting my code here in the next few days, but it's in bad nead of cleanup.