On 2/3/20 12:42 PM, Ravi Krishna wrote:
>> "already suffering from a complex of coding in an unreadable language"
>>
>> hearsay and conjecture
>>
> I was somewhat facetious. But what finished perl was the reputation it earned that it is a write only
> language. I don't think that reputation it earned is without merit.
>
> IMO the early adopters of perl were sysadmins and other non programmers who didn't do a stellar
> job in writing a highly readable code. To make it worse, perl folks take it as a badge of honor to
> write their code in most obfuscated manner. They even get some recognition for that.
No need for an /Obfuscated Perl/ contest, because it's already obfuscated...
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