Some of the arguments about Perl and bad engineering practice are not entirely without merit. Neglecting 'use strict;' or 'use warnings;' in your script typically makes this more apparent. The language itself however does not attempt to constrain developers in the same way modern languages do, instead the burden of responsible engineering is placed on the developer. The result is people that deal with badly engineered Perl typically become sour to the language itself.
I reserved my criticisms of Perl for things like signal handling and it's implementation OOP(to name a few), but overall it's a good language.
I reserved my criticisms of Perl for things like signal handling and it's implementation OOP(to name a few), but overall it's a good language.