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maintaining code (Score:1)
Much of the code will be written badly or at least in such a way as to really annoy you. Worse still you will probably have to debug programs in unfamiliar and lesser languages like Java or VB.
Hacking other peoples code is unpleasent at the best of times. If you are lucky then there is some documentation or some kind of guidelines on how things are done but usually there is neither.
One of the nice things about
@JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
print reverse @JAPH;