&gt;8) Even if regexs are not needed, inevitably the perl dev will use them since that&#x27;s the perl hammer, and it&#x27;s hard to know what the intention is with regexes or what the source data even looks like<p>I&#x27;m going to disagree with this one.  There&#x27;s lots of things in any language where it can be hard to see, at a glance, what the intention of the programmer was.  That&#x27;s why we have commenting.  You&#x27;re supposed to comment your blocks of code so that someone else can look at it and understand what that block of code is supposed to do.<p>Unfortunately, as far as I can tell by looking at other people&#x27;s code, I appear to be one of the only programmers on the planet who actually uses comments....