The currency in the developer community is enthusiasm. - Erik Naggum

Computer programming is like the ability or skill to see what Picasso saw from all the different angles at once. If it is an art, the crucial element of art is to look at things from an angle that produces new insight or at least has that potential.

… so as long as you do The Right Thing and forget how you would do it in C, you should be able to get a good grip on this.

It's not that Perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done.