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> What is not cool about Perl? Almost everything is not cool about Perl. Perl felt crufty and ancient even when I was learning it fifteen years ago. It's only
by redbad 13y ago
> What is not cool about Perl?
Almost everything is not cool about Perl. Perl felt crufty and ancient even when I was learning it fifteen years ago. It's only gotten weirder, cruftier, and more ancient since then.
- smacktoward 13y agoI dunno, it's been nearly as long since I learned Perl (or used it much) but the stuff I've seen out of the "modern Perl" movement (http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html) looks a lot cleaner and more, well, modern than the Perl I used to live with. You can still write "crufty and ancient" Perl, in other words, but you don't have to.