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Damian Conway (Perl5 frequent contributor) is a professor who knows and has taught Lisp classes. He made a good point that although Lisp is powerful in it's own
by Montezuma123 11y ago
Damian Conway (Perl5 frequent contributor) is a professor who knows and has taught Lisp classes. He made a good point that although Lisp is powerful in it's own way, you don't get a lot of information by simply glancing at some code. With sigils and other known operators, Perl gives the reader a lot of information as long as it isn't abused.
- zaphar 11y agoThis is a great point that often get's ignored or glossed over. Perl code is information dense which makes it look messy to someone who doesn't know what each of the sigils and syntax elements mean. What this means is that perl has a longer learning curve but once you get over the hump you know a lot more about what the code is doing in a glance than you do for other languages. So it's not more readable to the new guy but it can be more readably to the ones who put in the effort to get up to speed.