Incidentally, I often see people complaining about non-idomatic python tutorials here.
What I see from this is that people will try to TMTOWTDI regardless of whether or not that's the language's philosophy. At least Perl prepares you to expect people writing code that doesn't look like yours.
(And I'm used to people's weird styles. I have one friend who makes every line of code its own subroutine, and another that gives every method a super_descriptive_but_way_way_too_long_name. You get used to it, and emulate it when appropriate. It's better to decide on a style with your friends/coworkers instead of being told what to do by some guy that works at Google you've never met.)
What I see from this is that people will try to TMTOWTDI regardless of whether or not that's the language's philosophy. At least Perl prepares you to expect people writing code that doesn't look like yours.
(And I'm used to people's weird styles. I have one friend who makes every line of code its own subroutine, and another that gives every method a super_descriptive_but_way_way_too_long_name. You get used to it, and emulate it when appropriate. It's better to decide on a style with your friends/coworkers instead of being told what to do by some guy that works at Google you've never met.)