I'm trying to determine if by "beauty" you mean "idiomatic". That's what I think you mean, because you mention Perl's syntactic flexability.

While others might find it ugly, I think code like 

select((select(FH), $|=1)[0]);

[download]
is beautiful. It is a great example of lists, list slices, and using return values meaningfully.

I think we should try to find Perl's equivalent of the Euler equation for mathematics. For those of you not familiar with it, it shows the relationship of five "basic" elements of mathematics: e (the natural logarithm), i (the square root of -1), pi (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter), 1, and 0. The equation is e(i * pi) + 1 = 0. Does Perl have something like this? Something that shows a relationship between some of the building blocks of the language?

_____________________________________________________
Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

In reply to Re: Beautiful Perl by japhy
in thread Beautiful Perl by BrentDax

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.