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historically, this is exactly the role Perl has played. It's also why people keep repeating the nonsense that Perl looks like line noise. Because the only Perl
by deckard1 5y ago
historically, this is exactly the role Perl has played. It's also why people keep repeating the nonsense that Perl looks like line noise. Because the only Perl code people are familiar with are throwaway scripts written by (usually) some system admin person who is absolutely not a developer.
- sundarurfriend 5y agoAnd JAPH (Just Another Perl Hacker) type constructs that are meant to bend the language in weird ways and show off the person's knowledge of the language intricacies. They were a lot of fun, but likely gave a distorted idea of an average Perl program, to those unfamiliar with it.