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I'm not super familiar with Perl, but I gather that it shares much of bash's, er, ergonomic hurdles. Is there something about gaining scripting power that requ
by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm not super familiar with Perl, but I gather that it shares much of bash's, er, ergonomic hurdles.
Is there something about gaining scripting power that requires such poor usability? I resisted it for a while, but I just write all my workaday scripts in Python now, and I'm honestly a little baffled as to why I stuck with bash for so long.
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- lenkite 5y agoPerl's usability is far higher than bash and more consistent. Admittedly, there is a bit of memorisation regarding special variables, but those variables are well-documented and have a strong UNIX heritage. (and they have named versions too..)
- cafard 5y agoI would say that Perl burst on the world about 30 years ago, and that what it allowed one to do was so compelling that it spread at tremendous speed. It was out there, it was in use, and any development had to avoid--as far as possible--breaking existing code. It is possible to write lucid, maintainable Perl, something I have occasionally managed. It is easy to write ugly, unmaintainable Perl, and that I have too often done. If one looks at the Perl found on CPAN or in various good books on Perl, you can see how to do the former.