Source: so old it's lost
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When it comes to surprising behavior, Perl isn't any worse than JavaScript. Which admittedly isn't a great comparison for either language. Most of the bellyaching around Perl has to do with regular expressions, but every other language out there picked up Perl's regex syntax in a mostly verbatim way (PCRE).