I still find the occasional Perl script in my current job, usually going through someone's legacy infrastructure, and I always have the same reaction, "phew I'm glad I switched to Python".
That reaction has nothing to do with the culture, it's 100% technical.
Just a few of the main points, I don't know why Perl coders were so adverse to comments, it's almost like some of us took a perverse pleasure in producing the most illegible piece of code.
It's like a stream of someone's consciousness.
I used to take pride in being fluent in PCRE, as well as some other dialects, and looking through an old Perl script you easily see why, it's used on every 10th line. And it always strikes me with a sense of relief when I realize all those instances of Regex are solved in a more OOP/Pythonic way today. Regex is something I reserve for edge cases.