> Perl has a small set of core syntax and is very extensible and flexible in adopting new paradigms.
This is actually a deep flaw, rather than an advantage. There are so many ways to do a single thing in Perl that you just give up seeing them in the wild. It would take months or years of practice to get comfortable with every nuance of Perl. Even Google fails to help often (try Googling what "$_%@" means). I get it; the terseness can feel for an advanced user, but folks like me, the verbosity of Python and Javascript is much more preferable.
This is actually a deep flaw, rather than an advantage. There are so many ways to do a single thing in Perl that you just give up seeing them in the wild. It would take months or years of practice to get comfortable with every nuance of Perl. Even Google fails to help often (try Googling what "$_%@" means). I get it; the terseness can feel for an advanced user, but folks like me, the verbosity of Python and Javascript is much more preferable.