I'm currently writing perl with a team, and I find that so long as you write in a way that looks good, there's no issue with other people reading the code either.

And that still happens at stream-of-conciousness.

were the answers at least in the form of questions?

"I'd like to buy a Tefelah, Rabbi Alex"

I write new things in Perl all the time. Deploying highly functional backend services using Mojolicious, a framework which is VERY actively developed.