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[โ€“] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You'll be damned if you ever need to know what exactly you made it do 20 years ago though as Perl is a write-only language ;p

[โ€“] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

LOL that's so true.

[โ€“] knobbysideup@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

That's a poor developer problem, not a perl problem.

[โ€“] digdilem@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

That's the joke, but it's really not true.

You can write unintelligable code in most languages.

Perl's syntax is fine, and you can write beautiful code with it - but it will also let you write fugly code that works.

I think those who say this seriously just don't understand Perl, or even programming generally. (Whilst I like Perl, I'm also proficient in C, Java, JS, Python, PHP, Bash and probably a few more, so I'm not just promoting the only thing I know.)