Imo the amount of magic variables in perl is too damn high.

Like I don’t want to have to keep all that in my head while parsing through thousands of lines of code. I spent a few years working as a perl developer and even near my last days there I still found myself digging through docs to figure out what certain symbols meant and did.

My first developer role was as a junior developer and I was tossed into single letter variable loop hell in perl lol.

I was telling my mentor that if I were introduced to perl now that I’ve got several years of experience in a variety of different languages and thought models, it probably wouldn’t bother me as much. I kind of like bash (sometimes) and perl is really a hyper extended scripting language so going from bash to perl isn’t too bad. But given that that is what I was started in, I have a massive distaste for it and I doubt that will ever change.