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Perl has a well-deserved reputation as a "write-only language".
by rongenre 7y ago
Perl has a well-deserved reputation as a "write-only language".
- oldmanwillow 7y agoAny language you haven't taken the time to understand is write only. This is such a lazy trope.
- collyw 7y agoI have seen absolute rubbish written in Python (which is supposed to be like pseudocode) and I have seen beautifally written Perl. It's 90% down to the individual writing the code. Perl just has a lot of syntactic sugar which can make it look like line noise to someone that doesn't understand it.
- daotoad 7y agoSo the story goes. Care to relate some examples that show how it is worse than any other language? I’ve seen mind-curdlingly horrible Perl of several varieties (novice, mad genius, and the biggest ugliest balls of mud you’ve ever seen), yet nothing has yet touched even the hem of the horrors I presented over-architected Java ravioli with acute patternitis.