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Music:: The Wonder Stuff - Full Of Life (Happy Now)

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personally I think that's what Perl looks like *now*..

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Good to see I'm not the only one who doesn't like Perl.

When I first played with it, I thought, this is rather cool. But the further I got into it, the more I've come to the conclusion that they've made too many design decisions I disagree with.

Such as... more than one way of doing things (fine up to a point, but when you have half a dozen completely different syntaxes for the same operation, it makes it difficult for novices to know what's going on), a duct should look like a duct (meaning that different bits of the language look different, leading to wild inconsistencies), and it should be possible to write your entire program in a single illegible line (no comment required).

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You do realise that Alan Burlison, who produced that cover is one of the people who does a lot of the internals hacking on Perl 5 right?

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Well I do now. I respect people who can have a joke at themselves. But I still don't like Perl as a language.

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$mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)$

Amusing, but I like Perl. It's concise, efficient, dynamically-typed, has a flexible object model, supports keyword arguments, allows lambda expressions as first-class data, and provides full access to the operating system.

All features that Java (which I'm liking less and less as time goes by) lacks.

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