It's weaksauce for 2000, no? Pretty much everything in Unix Haters Handbook (1994) is better than this. In the more usenetty vein, Christiansen's C-shell Considered Harmful is easily much better.
There's a lot of filler in it, it's not very pointed, and it's mostly handwavy. You could substitute almost any other language in there and it would read the same. "This is your brain on Perl"?
I think "A Fractal of Bad Design" ruined me for these.
People call Perl a "write-only language". That's a good takedown! And in just a couple words! I don't get why people have so much reverence for Naggum.
