I worked at a VFX place that was held together by loads of perl, written over a good 15 years. Some of it was clever, but most of it was plain readable scripts.

The key to keeping it readable was decent code reviews and someone ripping the piss out of you for making unreadable soup.

Its all python nowadays, I do miss CPAN, but I don't miss perls halfarsed function args.

However for the longest time, the documentation for perl was >> than python. At the time python doc were written almost exclusively for people who knew how to python. Perl docs assumed you were in a hurry and needed an answer now, and if you were still reading by the end assumed you either cared or were lost and needed more info.

With the rise of datascience, python has lost its "oh you should be able to just guess, look how _logical_ the syntax is" to "do it like this."

For instance, the Amiga used 23-pin connectors to connect displays and disk drives. They had the same pin spacing as DB25 but were slightly smaller.

The airwolf one was funny, since it was a childhood favorite, and what a funny little typo they had there.

When watching the video I was thinking to myself, could this series have influenced my future interests in ways I didn't even know? Fun.