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I think there are two very different sides to perl culture. About ten years ago I worked on a OO Perl project which was ~10k lines. It had coding standards, test suites, documentation, and was easy to maintain and bring new engineers into.

The other side is hacked together scripts. Which have their place, but are often a mess.

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Actually, there is a name for both sides:

There is the CPAN, which is obviously what it is;

And there is the DarkPAN, a term describing all the internal projects in companies, or small tools hacked together by people who don't know or care about the CPAN.

> or small tools hacked together by people who don't know or care about the CPAN.

In some parts, the latter is referred to as BedPAN.

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