To be quite honest I'd prefer most anything over Perl. Either the language is inherently heinous or most Perl coders are the kind of people that write C that reads like "for (s=src,d=dst;*d++=*s++,*d;);".
90% of the Perl code I've seen looks like line noise (compared most Perl I've seen, that C monstrosity back there reads like Cobol).
Scripting languages are cool - l337 h4x0r toys are annoying.
