Post #1552324

2026-04-18 08:21 UTC

@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

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@jenesuispasgoth@pouet.chapril.org 2026-04-18 08:23

@RosaCtrl But honestly, the borrowing mechanism in Rust can become far more complicated to grasp when combined with the lifetime mechanism than most of what I've seen in Perl. Perl is weakly and dynamically typed. It is a product of its time. But it is still a great language imo as long as you use the right pragmas to keep yourself honest. 2/2

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