Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.