Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.

When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?