I remember writing Perl for a part-time job in college, quite some time ago. The language was powerful, and compact. However, when I went back to a piece of code that I hadn't looked at in two weeks, the compact and powerful nature of the language made it hard to read. [...] Sometimes it was faster to re-write the code from scratch than to read it, so it was, to some extent, a write-only language.

Sorry, couldn't resist