Perl 11
I don&#x27;t understand the love for Perl. I wrote maybe 10k-20k lines of Perl between maybe 1996 and 2003 and at the time I was happy it worked.<p>But ... more than any other language I&#x27;ve used it seems the most hacked and confusing. Global variables abound. Crazy cryptic syntax. Ridiculous scoping rules with hacked on workarounds.<p>I really don&#x27;t get the continued love. Sometime around 2003 IIRC I got introduced to Python and never looked back. When someone hands me a perl script I don&#x27;t look forward to trying to get it to work.<p>Speaking of which tho even Python now makes me crazy. NPM might suck for various reasons but at least all deps are installed local to each project. I&#x27;m sure there are secret incantations for doing the same in perl and python but by default most stuff I download requires global libraries to be installed. If there is one thing I love about npm is that it defaults to project local installs and I have yet to run into a project that requires a global install