Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.

Novice programmers were able to write sample programs more accurately in Quorum versus Perl–an interesting, but not terribly surprising, result. More surprising was how Perl compared to Randomo.

Object-oriented programming techniques are not taught, which are needed for using most of the publicly available Perl libraries.

I was actually given a copy of this book, Learning Perl on Win32 Systems, but I found for most of the stuff that I do, my copy of Programming Perl, was sufficient. At any rate, it's probably a ...