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Perl is a write-only language.
by AndyDevine 4y ago
Perl is a write-only language.
- anthk 4y agoCheck PangZero of Frozen Bubble.
- forgetfulness 4y agoPerl is meant to be written and read intuitively. Which is a bad decision, in every language you're going by intuition 95% of the time, it's when a piece of code works in an unfamiliar way that you reason from first principles, and then having clear and rigid rules to fall back on gets you out of the rut more quickly. Perl's design makes this harder for purportedly giving you more tools to write code that looks about right.
- tp34 4y agoTranslation: I am not a competent $language programmer. You will not understand my poorly written code. In this case, language="perl". perl is not special in this regard.
- rektide 4y agoI believe the longstanding joke goes, 'Perl is a Worn language, write once read never'