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).
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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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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All features that Java (which I'm liking less and less as time goes by) lacks.
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I can't wait.
But I love that cover image too :)