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I actually like the explicit "I'm reading from a special list" syntax because that's what it's doing. A lot of Perl's "ugliness" comes from the language being p
by gatlin 14y ago
I actually like the explicit "I'm reading from a special list" syntax because that's what it's doing. A lot of Perl's "ugliness" comes from the language being pretty honest about what it's doing.
- wazoox 14y agoActually, though I tried C++ starting in 1993, Java from 1996, I didn't really grok OO until I tried it in Perl a few years later. Because it shows its guts out, without any sugar coating, I understood what it was about.
- gatlin 14y agoA favorite koan of mine: objects are a poor man's closures, but closures are a poor man's objects.