To be clear here: You can be a perl newbie even after you&#x27;ve been writing Perl for decades. I know this because i sometimes see code like that in companies that don&#x27;t value their employee education, or heck, their employee. Period. You&#x27;ll have a guy who&#x27;s been writing Perl for 15 years and never got past the small 500 word tutorial he once read back then. He may be old and have the years, but he&#x27;s still a newbie since he doesn&#x27;t know shit.<p>That said, i&#x27;ve never met these people outside of said companies and especially not on the internet and most decidedly not anywhere near any sort of perl community. They&#x27;ve all been strict 9-5ers for whom the coding is a burden to bear to pay the bills and nothing else.<p>The people who&#x27;re old and in the community? They&#x27;re on the same Kwalitee train as everyone else.