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2026-04-18 09:18 UTC
@jenesuispasgoth yeah, so syntax is one thing, but that’s why I mentioned APL. Having to learn a language is not the problem.
However now I lean more towards thinking of languages as good because you break the rules and everything is still fine. But if you need certain discipline to use it, I would say it’s bad
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@jenesuispasgoth@pouet.chapril.org 2026-04-18 09:34
@RosaCtrl The only discipline you need (really!) is to add "use strict;" to force yourself to declare and scope variables, and avoid using "implicit" variables wherever possible. The rest is regular programming in my opinion. Perl allowed lots of people to "break the rules" and that is also why a lot of people dislike it: you have different cultures writing programs very differently, which in turn made it "difficult" to read when you were stemming from the same Perl subculture.