Re: "A 2017 Stack Overflow survey singled out Perl as the most hated coding language"
There's some fun to be had in writing clever condensed stuff, see code golf. The more seductive route though is writing something and thinking, "actually I could get rid of that if..." and, before you know it, in the name of tidying you've reduced everything to a single code-executing regex. The trick to staying on the light side is keeping an eye on whether things are getting clearer or just smaller.
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