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> I've always found it funny how many of the people who decry Perl as being "line noise" will then go on to praise such languages as APL, J and K This is not a
by michaelcampbell 12y ago
> I've always found it funny how many of the people who decry Perl as being "line noise" will then go on to praise such languages as APL, J and K
This is not a reality with which I am familiar. I like the idea of APL; I even did some, years ago, but this feels strawman-y to me. Even in the J/K/APL crowd, the running joke is readability.
- agumonkey 12y agoFrom a distance I'd say APL* having one datastructure and many (cryptically represented) operations. Think Alan Perlis (NPI) epigram (http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html). Perl context sensitivity with many builtin types is like combinatorial explosion of cases and is harder to parse mentally.