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That is why I love perl: the manager can not understand it and can not say it was simple.
by webreac 12y ago
That is why I love perl: the manager can not understand it and can not say it was simple.
- jarcane 12y agoI wonder how much language popularity is affected by this effect. We Lisp/FP fans crow about how easy and quick dev in more expressive languages is, but to a clueless manager that's potentially exactly the problem. If it doesn't look like work, then the manager is apt to wonder what they're paying you for. Whereas JavaEE ...
- gwern 12y agoAPL should've been much more popular if prestige by intimidation was a major factor.