• Atemu@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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

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      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.)