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I don't think anyone (the paper's authors included) would claim that this is objective proof that Perl is bad. I personally share your concerns. But wouldn't

• celoyd 15y ago
  Oh, I certainly don’t begrudge them running the experiment. I just wanted to put a check on the excessively anti-Perl interpretations that I thought were suggested by the title. A more interesting test to me would be something like seeing how fast experts in a number of languages could extend or find a bug in code by other experts. I think there’s been a little research on this, but I don’t know enough to link to the best of it. As I said, I dislike Perl’s syntax. But I think that, on the available evidence, it makes sense to see that an an opinion on the level of disliking cilantro, not on the level of disliking geocentric cosmology.