That's a wonderful thing about Perl, but we're talking about readability here. To read Perl code in practice (written by people other than yourself), you need to know an extraordinary number of Perlisms. This is the curse of TMTOWTDI.
not really extraordinary, unless you only know one language!
most programmers know half a dozen languages, and another half-dozen technologies and tools
Plus the fun is in the details ;) I love languages with depth in them!
