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> I must say, this page reminds me of how lightyears ahead Perl was/is in terms of tooling. When Perl has such a mess of a syntax that its meaning is ambiguous
by lol768 9y ago
> I must say, this page reminds me of how lightyears ahead Perl was/is in terms of tooling.
When Perl has such a mess of a syntax that its meaning is ambiguous to any static parser, I find it difficult to believe Perl has such amazing tooling - JetBrains for one refuse to implement any official support for it (see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issueMobile/IDEA-87976# https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issueMobile/IDEA-87976#).
- Afton 9y agoThis seems like an unrelated dig on Perl. There are many things that Perl did better than any contemporaneous language, all while having an ambiguous static parser.