I am dread of this!

Read through Perl::Critic. Interesting but bad idea. Over the years I don't know how many lines of code (in different languages) I have reviewed, I never once thought of impose anything on anyone.

Programming is art more than engineering. The "perl encourages bad coding style" critique has been certainly taken in the wrong way, actaully two wrong wayS: 1) total denial, and 2) over-react in the wrong direction with the wrong fix.