@thomasfuchs I love Perl. It was my first professional language back in the 90s. I credit it with a lot of my core dev principles.

Like English, you can write it poorly but effectively, elaboratly awjwardly, or (with enough effort) effectively and understandably.

Sadly, the software industry wants quick results, not effective prose. The judging is based on maintainability without familiarity.

Perl was written by a linguist and Python by a mathematician, and in both cases you can tell.