I have a better understanding on where you're coming from now, with your main experience of Perl being later version 4 and early version 5 of the language - things have significantly improved since then and it's a lot easier to write Perl code that's both easy to read and maintain these days. You might want to have a look through the Modern Perl book (http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl_2016/index.html) to get an idea of the direction the language has moved.
And for the more junior programmers out there: Just because a language gives you a feature doesn't mean you have to use it - part of being a good programmer is understanding when it makes sense to use a language's feature and when it doesn't. After all, C let's us directly inline machine code as an array of bytes, but that doesn't mean that we should be using that feature every time we write C code :)
And for the more junior programmers out there: Just because a language gives you a feature doesn't mean you have to use it - part of being a good programmer is understanding when it makes sense to use a language's feature and when it doesn't. After all, C let's us directly inline machine code as an array of bytes, but that doesn't mean that we should be using that feature every time we write C code :)