If you dont believe me you need only see all the crap people are talking about Perl on the Bugzilla wiki. So much of the "Cons" being brought up are not really cons, but bad usage patterns and misunderstandings of features.

That "crap" stems from avatraxiom's journal, and hidden in the comments there's one that sets some bits straight - but the wiki wasn't updated accordingly...

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