> So yes, I enjoyed programming in Java, and being relieved of the responsibility for producing a quality product. It was pleasant to not have to worry about whether I was doing a good job, or whether I might be writing something hard to understand or to maintain. The code was ridiculously verbose, of course, but that was not my fault. It was all out of my hands.<p>Yes, that's it, blame the language when you write poor quality software. If only I'd used language X instead of language Y, my code would've been easy to read, well-architected and thoroughly tested.<p>...and if language X in this instance is supposed to be Perl.... come on. It has built-in functions that change behaviour depending on whether or not you're assigning them to something.