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Not really, because "unreadable" is a very subjective metric. When you spend some time with a syntax your brain learns to parse it quickly and effortlessly. Per
by ivanhoe 9y ago
Not really, because "unreadable" is a very subjective metric. When you spend some time with a syntax your brain learns to parse it quickly and effortlessly. Perl's use of $%@ prefixes to mark the type of variable actually makes it easier to understand, once you get used to the syntax.
- pacoverdi 9y ago100% agree. Another factor is that Perl is highly correlated with heavy usage of regular expressions. Those are easy to write but often pretty hard to read whatever the enclosing language (and author) :)