Perl Style: Program Perl, Not C/BASIC/Java/Pascal/etc - `Just
because you can do something a particular way doesn't mean you
should do it that way.' --Programming Perl - If you find
yourself writing code that looks like C code, or BASIC, or Java,
or Pascal, you are probably short-changing yourself. You need to
learn to program idiomatic Perl -- which does not mean
obfuscatory Perl. It means Perl in its own idiom: native Perl. -
Fall not into the folly of avoiding certain Perl idioms for fear
that someone who maintains your Perl code won't understand it
because they don't know Perl. This is ridiculous! That person
shouldn't be maintaining a language they don't understand. You
don't write your English so that someone who only speaks French
or German can understand you, or use Latin letters when writing
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