@ColinTheMathmo I developed #Perl quite a few years for a living.
This clearly showed, that the codestyle policies and their enforcement within a project/team makes all the difference for non-opionated languages like Perl.
Some of the best structured, most readable code I ever saw was in Perl - but at the same time, you can write valid Perl code which is indistinguishable from trying to #OCR paint splatters:
https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/