Yeah, but what if you've misspelled a name? Shouldn't it be easy to fix those kinds of mistakes? That's why I'd recommend formatting like...

my @folk = ();
push (@folk,
             "H".
             "i".
             "b".
             "b".
             "s"
                );
push (@folk,
             "D".
             "a".
             "g".
             "l".
             "i".
             "s".
             "h"
                );
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...etc. Of course that's also problematic if you want to edit an individual letter. So I find the style below a bit better (especially when using a modern editor like edlin). Plus it uses a more descriptive name than the bland "@folk"...

push (@Hibbs_Daglish_Schwartz_Vroom,
                                    chr(0b1001000).
                                    chr(0b1101001).
                                    chr(0b1100010).
                                    chr(0b1100010).
                                    chr(0b1110011)
                                                  );
push (@Hibbs_Daglish_Schwartz_Vroom,
                                    chr(0b1000100).
                                    chr(0b1100001).
                                    chr(0b1100111).
                                    chr(0b1101100).
                                    chr(0b1101001).
                                    chr(0b1110011).
                                    chr(0b1101000)
                                                  );
push (@Hibbs_Daglish_Schwartz_Vroom,
                                    chr(0b1010011).
                                    chr(0b1100011).
                                    chr(0b1101000).
                                    chr(0b1110111).
                                    chr(0b1100001).
                                    chr(0b1110010).
                                    chr(0b1110100).
                                    chr(0b1111010)
                                                  );
push (@Hibbs_Daglish_Schwartz_Vroom,
                                    chr(0b1010110).
                                    chr(0b1110010).
                                    chr(0b1101111).
                                    chr(0b1101111).
                                    chr(0b1101101)
                                                  );
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