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Paraphrased quote from one of my professors years ago: Writing readable perl is easy, just code it like it's LISP. Granted, he was working with it in AI/bioin
by lief79 2y ago
Paraphrased quote from one of my professors years ago:
Writing readable perl is easy, just code it like it's LISP.
Granted, he was working with it in AI/bioinformatics.
One of my classmates who moved into the IT/management side of things historically got much quicker responses from the dev team whenever he volunteered to code something, as he was always going to do it in perl.
- Terretta 2y agoSo true. Perl with list comprehensions do look a bit like line noise... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages_(list_comprehension)#Perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang... ... but not really worse than most other languages there. By contrast, its "higher order functions" are useful but relatively speaking, read like someone shook a box of leftover syntax all over them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function#Perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function#Perl Even though C# has a seizure in the middle, Perl still seems the clunkiest.