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This branch of comments has decent gripes. I adopted the contextual thinking fairly easily so it was not an issue for me but having worked with so many languag
by HybridCurve 4y ago
This branch of comments has decent gripes.
I adopted the contextual thinking fairly easily so it was not an issue for me but having worked with so many languages since perl I can see why this would be annoying to others. It's not the most unfortunate aspect though.
- xupybd 4y agoIt's not so bad when you know what is going on but when you first hit something like that it's hard to figure out what is going on. Basically violating the Principle of least astonishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen...
- DonHopkins 4y agoPerl also flagrantly violates the Principle of Least Nausea, with all its emetic Syntactic Syrup of Ipecac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrup_of_ipecac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrup_of_ipecac