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These days when perl enthusiasts say things like 'its terse' and 'there's more than one way to do it' and 'you can find a quick and short way to do interesting
by ivix 4y ago
These days when perl enthusiasts say things like 'its terse' and 'there's more than one way to do it' and 'you can find a quick and short way to do interesting things' the reaction is more of faint nausea than anything else. Probably not what they were going for.
- chrisseaton 4y agoImagine explaining to someone that the object system is based on a pun-name about priests. You'd feel like an idiot. Nobody's got time for that kind of wackiness these days.
- dale_glass 4y agoYou mean the 'bless' keyword? Yeah, that's a bit quirky, but lots of programming language keywords are kinda metaphorical anyway. The heck is a "void"?
- zengargoyle 4y agoTell them the object system was stolen from Python and they'll really freak out.