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It's very unpopular to mention Perl, but I did many cool things with it back in the day, and it still holds a special place for me. Perl taught me the power of
by jacob019 2y ago
It's very unpopular to mention Perl, but I did many cool things with it back in the day, and it still holds a special place for me. Perl taught me the power of regex--it's really first class in Perl. I still have some Perl code in production today. But to be fair, it is really easy to write spaghetti in Perl if you don't know what you're doing.
- fuzztester 2y agodon't worry about unpopularity, bro. worry about being true. the rest will take care of itself. if not, you are in the wrong company, forum, or place, and better to work on getting out of there.
- fuzztester 2y ago> But to be fair, it is really easy to write spaghetti in Perl if you don't know what you're doing. bro, you really need to educate yourself some more, if you say things like that. baloney! first of all, perl is already spaghetti. I mean, it has all those curlicues, aka sigils. perl devs love it that way. second of all, that point about being able to write spaghetti is not unique to perl. many people do it in many languages. in fact it is common here on hn to see the statement "you can write fortran in any language".