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Thank you! I appreciate that you took the time to explain. ESR is apparently saying (true at the time) that Perl can be hard to maintain. But by "Perl," I spe

Thank you! I appreciate that you took the time to explain. ESR is apparently saying (true at the time) that Perl can be hard to maintain. But by "Perl," I speculate that he was talking about coding in monolithic non-OO scripts which would be a drag in any language. So his criticism of the language was fair in the 1990's, but only for that style of procedural coding. I tried to look at his source, but his own links to his Perl stuff are broken: http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/software.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/software.html

famousactress 15y ago
So, yeah.. you can write hard-to-maintain code in any language, but I think many (including myself) would argue that it's much easier to do in Perl than many other languages. It's built into Perl ('more-than-one-way'), and explicitly avoided in python wherever possible. Bottom line: all things being equal, I'd argue you're more likely to end up with a Python codebase that's a pleasure to maintain than a Perl one.
- rjbond3rd 15y ago
  That is certainly a fair opinion, although sometimes conventional wisdom is wrong :)