> I'd say that JS is moving closer and closer to Perl in its write-only-ness. I've never understood why it's common to dismiss Perl as "line noise" while, outs

> I'd say that JS is moving closer and closer to Perl in its write-only-ness. I've never understood why it's common to dismiss Perl as "line noise" while, outside of contrived or unusual Perl examples, it's way less line-noiseish than what I see in certain languages that are, evidently, very popular among people influential in the JavaScript community. Implicit, repeated re-assignment of a magical "%" variable while adding a two-character punctuation operator to reverse the "direction" that values "travel" is clean and more readable? In what universe? The example that also uses Underscore, especially, reads like some kind of parody.