Perl was my first language, and my progress suffered as a result. Don't get me wrong, I love Perl and use it for things, and while there are many ways to do things, most of the ways are fairly awful, and I had to go through many iterations of writing the same code to now at least be somewhat confident. Probably as a first language it would've been nice to be forced to be clean initially! Perl allowed me to get away with so much..