Comment by Terretta

So true.

Perl with list comprehensions do look a bit like line noise...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang...

... but not really worse than most other languages there.

By contrast, its "higher order functions" are useful but relatively speaking, read like someone shook a box of leftover syntax all over them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function#Perl

Even though C# has a seizure in the middle, Perl still seems the clunkiest.