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by lief79
473 days ago
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Paraphrased quote from one of my professors years ago: Writing readable perl is easy, just code it like it's LISP. Granted, he was working with it in AI/bioinformatics. One of my classmates who moved into the IT/management side of things historically got much quicker responses from the dev team whenever he volunteered to code something, as he was always going to do it in perl. |
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Perl with list comprehensions do look a bit like line noise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang...
... but not really worse than most other languages there.
By contrast, its "higher order functions" are useful but relatively speaking, read like someone shook a box of leftover syntax all over them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function#Perl
Even though C# has a seizure in the middle, Perl still seems the clunkiest.