As some who dipped in to Perl 3 times, each a decade apart and therefore dealt with Perl 3, 4 and 5, it's annoying that now in version 6, the Perlites finally realize that they got the ridiculous way of using sigils wrong.... $foo[2] is (formerly) an element of @foo. Also the joyous talk of brevity (think $_) is nauseating. Having to Google for the meaning of line noise is once, twice, three times a headache.

I acknowledge that every mind is different, and folks are drawn to different languages. I've met engineers who hated syntax coloring. But for the mind behind my own eyes, I love Ruby, hate Perl.