Should we hire someone who writes C in Perl? [closed]

Answer 1

I don't care whether he used regular expressions or not. I also don't care whether his Perl looks like C or not. The question that really matters is: is this good Perl? And I'd say it's not:

1. He didn't use use strict
2. He didn't enable warnings.
3. He's using the old-fashioned two-argument version of open.
4. The "open file" comment hurts and gives me the impression that code he usually writes doesn't contain any comments.
5. The code is hard to maintain
6. Was he allowed to use CPAN modules? A good Perl programmer would look at that option first.