The author of the blog post is pushing a good agenda (promoting modern Perl) but doing so with tactics that end up adding more harmful FUD to Perl's already shaky reputation.
How so?
If Perl can't survive the honest admission that a lot of people writing Perl aren't great programmers, that the design of the language encourages people to be able to write baby Perl and still get their work done, and that the existing core Perl community needs to find these people and encourage them to improve their skills, then Perl doesn't deserve to survive.
How so?
If Perl can't survive the honest admission that a lot of people writing Perl aren't great programmers, that the design of the language encourages people to be able to write baby Perl and still get their work done, and that the existing core Perl community needs to find these people and encourage them to improve their skills, then Perl doesn't deserve to survive.