Perl isn’t particularly worse than JavaScript. Which itself has a lot of quirks, of course. The big thing with Perl is getting your head around list and scalar context. There’s a learning curve to it, but can be very powerful once you understand. I wish more languages would do list flattening by default.
If by “hard to understand” you’re including trying to understand someone else’s code, Perl can be a nightmare.
Perl isn’t particularly worse than JavaScript. Which itself has a lot of quirks, of course. The big thing with Perl is getting your head around list and scalar context. There’s a learning curve to it, but can be very powerful once you understand. I wish more languages would do list flattening by default.
Or your own after six months.