this isn't a question, lads
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muting this because as i've already had one angry nerd being upset at someone else having an opinion and i don't care
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if i wanted your opinions on programming, well, something has happened and i've been replaced by a clone
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me: perl has a bad rap a rando: YOU IDIOT IT IS THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER USED AND I AM THE MOST OBJECTIVE MAN ALIVE
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me: so, like compared to awk, shell, m4, sed, and the tools of the era, perl actually thought about the language in the large, like how eq/== was a thing for string vs numerical equality you: look it's bad, i read this on slashdot
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got told I didn't remember perl but i've spent twenty years explaining to people that 'no, perl _is_ call by reference'
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programmers love to hate on languages beginners use because it reminds them that writing business logic and shell scripts does not make you a savant
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anyway do i care about your opinion ----> are you a programmer ---> do you think you're an expert ---> no also no
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Sorry, but no. After a decade of working mostly with perl, I cannot imagine a stupider idea than "let's design a computer language modelled on human language"
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You have a limited imagination I guess
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Or you've blissfully forgotten quite a lot of things about perl...
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You know what, I really don't need a grumpy stranger desperate to correct me in my mentions this morning
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no, heh i remember the other options
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Perl is a brilliant language and I don't understand the magnitude of hate it gets (other than the standard "noobs use that, bash them") It's incredibly terse and expressive and I deeply enjoy writing it
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honestly, even perl6 moved to 'call by object' and 'sigil matches type not derefed' it's a little xfig in that it built an interface before we collectively decided on idioms
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I just think of what it was like to write C code to deal with file processing and IO and holy shit Perl just blows that ecosystem away. It's a great set of abstractions
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You didn't write C code, you wrote an unholy mess of sed, awk, cut, paste, head, tail, shell, sort and uniq (at least).
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tell that to the security prof who made me write a bunch of shell hacks in C90 in the year of our lord 2014
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Teaching is different :-P
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