Post #1552323
2026-04-18 05:29 UTC
@jenesuispasgoth and in that case, I wonder if using it is justified in any sense once things get to complicated. Any thoughts on this? People seem to hate it, but I’ve never used it, so I don’t know if it’s hate that comes from ignorance or if there’s something wrong with its design
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@jenesuispasgoth@pouet.chapril.org 2026-04-18 08:21
@RosaCtrl I think most people who hate on Perl had to try and understand scripts written by people who simply copied/pasted and Frankensteined code without ever really understanding the language. I've written Perl scripts professionally, and the code of my colleagues as well as mine were perfectly legible. Sure, you have to contend with (at first) weird sigils in front of variable names ($scalar, @ table, %hash, $elt = $table[$idx], $elt2 = $hash{$key}, ...). 1/2