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Is there anything you can do in Perl, that you can't do a cleaner way in another language?
by hereforphone 5y ago
Is there anything you can do in Perl, that you can't do a cleaner way in another language?
- vanusa 5y agoThere is some stuff, for sure - regexes were somewhat more advanced than in competing languages, last I checked. But most of the other benefits it does provide either (1) mostly YAGNI (2) risky to use (3) impediments to readability. As well as being just plain complexity bloat, and impediments to the maintainability of the language as a whole. Lo and behold, the interpreter is VERY complex, and the number of people who understand its intentionally arcane inner workings, is, correspondingly, quite tiny -- which has been a significant drag coefficient acting against its developmental velocity forward evolution. Which has a lot to do with why (despite its being truly great in the 90s and aughts) we just don't hear very much about it anymore.