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Years ago Larry Wall presented a graph of programming languages with the axes labeled "whipupitude" and "manipulexity". Perl excels at both. It's still my go-to
by jsrcout 3y ago
Years ago Larry Wall presented a graph of programming languages with the axes labeled "whipupitude" and "manipulexity". Perl excels at both. It's still my go-to for tasks requiring a lot of text manipulation, or with just a bit too much complexity to be a shell script. Perl code does look odd at first, but it gets an unfair rap on that point - there are plenty of popular languages that are hard to mentally parse without some background.
- RadiozRadioz 3y agoI love these terms. I find it delightful when he, and others, have fun with language in this way. It's the same feeling I got when learning Perl and discovering constructs like unless/until, because _of course_ those exist. Breaking from the norm and enjoying the freedom and flexibility of language that is so often overlooked.