Perl is the one language I can say I -hate-. It is a crazy language, and I'm surprised nobody uses it anymore except when they are descending into the rats nest of company legacy code from 15-20 years ago (personal experience).https://twitter.com/fhuszar/status/1072784875709759488 …
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*not surprised LOL
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Replying to @citnaj
i actually used to like Perl, found it pretty intuitive, i mean i just started using it w/o checking the manual much (it was indeed like 15 years ago) and even wrote couple of small compilers
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Replying to @glagolista
WOW the one word I never thought of using to describe Perl was "intuitive"! Interesting background story there though.....
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Replying to @citnaj @glagolista
Perl unifies so many tools. No need to learn awk or sed etc. Perl 1-liners are amazing. I miss working in perl. And there's still nothing close to the scope of cpan
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Replying to @jeremyphoward @glagolista
Did you ever have to derefence something though...?!? I could never keep it straight it in my head! You say Perl 1-liners are amazing and yes- I know you could do a lot in one line. But writing it and then reading it later are two different things....
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Replying to @citnaj @jeremyphoward
i would suggest that code reading is a skill in its own right - i've beed in consulting business for a while and at some point it doesn't matter what language or whatever
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Yeah don't get me wrong- you can write unreadable code in any language. For me personally- if it's really hard to read code I wind up having to refactor it just to comprehend it. I spent a lot of time doing this with really bad Perl code so I'm probably just bitter lol.
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