"Perl gives you enough rope to you .." cit. Larry Wall. It is cause Perl is very expressive. I usually write code even my boss can read, and looks trivial remember Perl is inspired on natural languuages. On the other hand you can write very cryptic code, in every language, but Perl can be very tricky: use comments for the future you.

Learning Perl was a great excercise, after that I could learn JavaScript really easy not only cause they are so similar but cause Perl and its culture teaches you about programming. It is a milestone.