Ironically, the part of Perl that looks most cursing is the regular expressions, and that’s the feature that so many modern languages have borrowed from Perl directly.

I primarily use perl, and while I find its syntax easy to understand, I'll be the first to admit that its syntax and special use cases thereof does provide a way for some rather exotic symbol-garbage to be valid code.

Normal perl code is simple enough. But abnormal code does happen, sometimes on purpose, sometimes by accident.

I'll share with you this gem:
Why is this program valid? I was trying to create a syntax error

"Vocational skills?" I was coding for fun since I was eight. Granted, I eventually turned the poor conversion of programs from 3-2-1 Contact! magazine into a lucrative career, but when I was young, it inhabited the same space as LEGO and reading novels under the covers too late.