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The typical Perl program is half as long as it should be to be readable and maintainable.
by HelloNurse 4y ago
The typical Perl program is half as long as it should be to be readable and maintainable.
- cestith 4y agoIs this an indictment of the language or the developer doing clever, terse quackery?
- HelloNurse 4y agoMostly the latter. In the rare occasions when I wrote Perl, the language offered all I needed to make my script as boring as Java, along with many temptations to be clever and concise; many people use Perl because it supports write-only "quackery", but it's their choice.
- sidlls 4y agoIn Perl's case, it's both. Perl encourages it, and "perl practitioners" as a rule tend to revel in it (in my experience).