Completely agree. tchrist's Style Guide has this to say on the subject and includes this absolute gem from Dominus:

The appropriate length of a name is directly proportional to the size of its scope.

which, together with tchrist's philosophy that clarity trumps length (to which I also subscribe) I think sums it up nicely. It's also worth pointing out for completeness that such matters of style apply to any names in source: subs, packages, constants, variables, etc.

It's fair to say that this advice is perfectly generic and applicable not just to Perl.

#!/usr/bin/perl ##################################
# Check installed *CPAN* modules for COMMENTS!   #
# Because CPAN modules have a lot of COMMENTS!   #
# https://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=1217408 #
##################################################

use strict;
use warnings;

use Config '%Config';
use ExtUtils::Installed;

for (split $Config{path_sep}, $ENV{PATH}) {
   $|++ if -x "$_/grep"
}
die "you need grep" unless $|;

my $time = time;
my $perl = ExtUtils::Installed->new;
my @cpan = $perl->modules();
my @temp = ();

for (@cpan) {
    my @cpan = $perl->files($_);
    push @temp, @cpan;
}
@cpan = grep /site.*\.pm$/, @temp;

my $opt = 0;

if (@ARGV) { $opt = 1 }
else {
print qq~Checking CPAN modules for COMMENTS in Perl versio~.
qq~n $^V\n(Invoke with any arg to skip questions and gener~.
qq~ate a list of modules.)\n\n~;

print qq~The list may be big and printing progress makes i~.
qq~t a bit slower.\nDefault: display progress, format outp~.
qq~ut and print offending lines of code.\nPress return to ~.
qq~start or n for no progress and list output. y/N~;

chomp($opt = <STDIN>); $opt = 1 if $opt and lc $opt eq 'n';
}
my $INC = join '|', @INC;
my $acme   = 0;
my $grep   = 0;

for my $cpan (@cpan) {
   print "\rChecking: ","$acme\tFound: $grep\t" unless $opt;
   if(@_ =`grep '^#' $cpan`) {
      @_ = grep !/^#(pod|[\-=~\*]|[#]{5,}|\s*\n)/,@_; # FAKE
      next unless scalar @_;
      (my $name = $cpan) =~ s/($INC)//;
      $name =~ s,^/,,;
      $name =~ s,/,::,g;
      $name =~ s/\.pm$//;
      s/^\s+/  / for @_;
      $_{$name} = join "\n ", @_;
      $grep++
   }
   $acme++
}
if ($opt) {
   print "$_\n" for sort keys %_
}
else {
   $perl = scalar keys %_;
   $time = time - $time;

   print qq~$perl CPAN modules (out of $acme) found with COMMENTS!\n~;
   print "$_:\n $_{$_}","-"x60,"\n" for sort keys %_;
   print qq~$perl CPAN modules (out of $acme) found with COMMENTS!\n~;
   print "That took $time secs (grep searched ",sprintf("%0d",$perl/$t
+ime),
   " modules/sec).\n";
}
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