[p0nce]

When I was younger I pushed myself to know Perl 5. I tried to learn Perl with one book. It was surprinsingly hard. I took a simpler book. I also failed grasping Perl. Those were the two recommended books for learning.

I've come to realize years after that Perl is simply difficult to learn, lots of little things to memorize. Its community took pride in language arcana. Things that are now simple in other languages are unbelievably difficult in Perl, like "hashes of arrays of hashes" and things like that.

On top of that, it's also difficult to read. No wonder Perl is losing, and to me the faster the world is cleanup from that, the better.

[Mithaldu]

You're incorrect in your realization. The truth is that the older books for learning perl are simply shitty.

If you read Ovid's Beginning Perl, or chromatic's Modern Perl, you'll find they managed to explain the concepts very easily.

[not_kurt_godel]

No, he's right. Perl is shitty. Have you ever read a random Perl script? It's impossible to interpret.

[Mithaldu]

"No, he's right. Japanese is shitty. Have you ever read a random Japanese scroll? It's impossible to interpret. Even in romaji!"

[pwr22]

https://gist.github.com/pwr22/c63c0e3f3309d0c95344

[pwr22]

Learning Perl is excellent for a beginner