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When I first learnt perl, twenty years ago, I loved it because it was full of clever devices and syntactic virtuosism. Now, I don't like it anymore exactly for
by blue1 11y ago
When I first learnt perl, twenty years ago, I loved it because it was full of clever devices and syntactic virtuosism. Now, I don't like it anymore exactly for the same reason. It's cool, but the wrong kind of cool.
- kafkaesq 11y agoThat's exactly the problem with Perl: cleverness -- especially other people's "cleverness" -- gets to be tedious, if not an outright pain to put up with and maintain, after a while.
- BuildTheRobots 11y agoIt's my own "cleverness" that winds me up the most. I've written a few bits of 5am code that amazingly and finally work though I no longer have any clue how or why o_0