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by Roboprog 4391 days ago
I guess that bottom line of what I am trying to say is that not all perl code is unreadable crap. That has more to do with the writer than the language. And, different languages make different things easier.

No final "right" or "wrong" choice for all use cases.

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> I guess that bottom line of what I am trying to say is that not all perl code is unreadable crap. That has more to do with the writer than the language. And, different languages make different things easier.

I would agree. It's the same issue Scala faces IMO - it doesn't have to be a complex maze of types and implicit conversions and implicit values, you can, if disciplined, write very understandable and clear Scala.

Sadly though, it seems a lot of developers aren't disciplined.

With great power comes great capacity to write overly clever unmaintainable crap.