Sometimes I look up a language I don't know much about to see if it looks very interesting. For some languages I read through the "Getting Started" guide and find myself really wanting to try it out myself.

Perl is not one of those languages, just had a look through the first page of their getting started guide and oh god I'm glad I haven't had to touch it yet, it pretty much just lists a bunch of super arbitrary pieces of inconsistent syntax examples as though they are convenient.