I don’t think that ‘terseness” is “the problem with Perl,” any more than “Too many parentheses” is the problem with Lisp. APL is a terrific language that is te

I don’t think that ‘terseness” is “the problem with Perl,” any more than “Too many parentheses” is the problem with Lisp. APL is a terrific language that is terse. It might not be the right tool for a job where you are constantly recruiting interns to hack on a massive code base, but it’s a fine language for its designed purposes. Which tells me that terseness in-and-of-itself is not a problem. It presents a tradeoff that may not be right for everyone.