> To make matters interesting, a leading v on a Perl version, or the presence of 2 or more .'s imply a sort order closer to Gentoos.

This is 100% classic perl: the default is bonkers and unintuitive, but the behaviour also changes in a DWIM manner to throw people off. And of course there are two different ways to represent versions so simply forgetting the v (one character) can cause a litany of bugs.

It's so ungoogleable.

they don't know why, they only know spewing drive-by perl hate is easy upvote fodder for midwits who can't think of anything reasonable to contribute