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Uh no. Perl is horrible. It basically showed us that python/ruby languages were possible, but is horrible, and lots of legacy code it in is often horrible.
by gte910h 17y ago
Uh no.
Perl is horrible. It basically showed us that python/ruby languages were possible, but is horrible, and lots of legacy code it in is often horrible.
- jrockway 17y agoHorrible code is horrible. That has nothing to do with Perl. There is indeed a lot of terrible Perl in existence. But new Perl code is quite nice I can use two modules and reasonably assume that they don't both make conflicting changes to the global class hierarchy. In Ruby... not so much, at least if you are using Rails. Did you know that Perl 5 looks like this now? http://blog.jrock.us/articles/Multimethods.pod http://blog.jrock.us/articles/Multimethods.pod
- jrockway 17y agoBlah, bad editing. Insert a period between "quite nice" and "I can".
- gte910h 17y agoVisual basic CAN look nice. Its just the vast quantity of it doesn't. You are picking the people you're programming with when you pick a language. Lots of people do very dirty dirty things in perl, and while those exist in Ruby and Python as well, proportionately they are much fewer in number there.