If you can't read Perl, you should learn it. You can't expect to be able to read any language on earth without learning it first. Yeah, some languages are easier to learn (say Visual Basic) yet at the same time they cause the programs to be much much longer. Programs are complex beasts and if you dumb down your building blocks you have to use lots more blocks than you would otherwise. So it may be that it's easier to get aquainted with VB enough to be able to read the individual statements, yet reading a program will be just as, if not more, hard as in Perl, since there will simply be much more to read.
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