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I like Perl. It is magic.

• marcosdumay 8y ago
  Indeed it is! You just OCR a random blob and get a division by 0 error.
• hnick 8y ago
  It's by far my preferred method of turning thoughts into code quickly, though I don't know what that says about my thoughts. The free form nature is amazing to spec out an idea and see what happens. Where it falls short for me is static analysis - a simple question like 'if we change this module, how many scripts will be affected?' is very difficult or impossible to answer due to the number of ways you can abuse Perl. Though in most cases, we get by.