I am sick and tired of hearing this, so let's put it this to the test. Assume you know little of Perl, or any programming language for that matter. Can you parse the code?

https://chrisarg.github.io/Killing-It-with-PERL/2023/12/06/Is-Perl-a-write-only-language.html

I hope the piece above is the first in a series to convince people to consider the reality before passing judgement. It was inspired by one of our research analysts discovering Perl and awk to simplify their l…