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> This is the very same critic that was (and still is) made about perl. It's funny how similar the arguments are. They can both be described as a language wit
by Cowen 14y ago
> This is the very same critic that was (and still is) made about perl.
It's funny how similar the arguments are.
They can both be described as a language with some serious gotchas, but that's simple enough and has such a great package collection that it's easy to get a lot of things done very quickly.
That description could also fit Javascript.
- RockyMcNuts 14y agoPerl is a language that pursued extreme flexibility and programming-style agnosticism as a design goal...that made it less than ideal for large scale software engineering...but enabled a lot of experimentation with powerful, sometimes sweet and expressive and sometimes obfuscated idioms. R is a bit of a train wreck. It makes hard things easy (if you know the right library or idiom), but often makes easy things hard. Perl is the duct tape of languages, R is more like the A-10 Warthog, ugly but powerful for a specific job.