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> "already suffering from a complex of coding in an unreadable language"
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> hearsay and conjecture
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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.