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its nearly un-readable once written?
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Alright, I can somewhat agree with this. It really does lack a good mechanism for commenting what you write. The shell style hash (#) commens are a bit hard to work with. I think if they ripped off C++'s commenting style, it would be excellent.
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The fact that Perl is programmed unorthogonaly makes it one of the worst languages for the future of programming. Having a jillion ways to write the same statement is a bad bad bad thing, because it means someone is going to write something in the most obfuscated way possible and I will end up debugging it or telling them to go do it again.
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Well, yeah. I guess if you wrote some some big program in perl, that would certainly be a problem, but perl is a scripting language. I argue that its not intended for writing big complex programs, but rather for getting a big bang for your buck. Just a few minutes of writing a perl script can give you tremendious power for solving simple tasks like merging databases, sorting & compiling MP3 lists, integrating AIM with IRC, etc. Don't hate perl for being good at what its intended for.