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by dmead 350 days ago
Ahh not sure I agree. The reputation for being unreadable is pretty well deserved. It didn't happen for no reason.
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ok - I agree that there was a culture of golfing and obscurity in some sections of the perl coder base

it was inevitable that a simpler language - Python - would take the big slice of scripters who wanted something easier to learn and to read

I'm sad that perl no longer has a credible niche for script level coders who want to learn a more powerful and more expressive language than Python ...