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At 09:36 -0500 2003.09.11, Peter da Silva wrote:
>I hate the absurd syntax.
There's absurd syntax? How abusrd!
>I hate the absurd claims that the absurd syntax is a good thing.
Again, there's absurd syntax?
(Note: I am speaking of perl, not perl6. :-)
>There's more than one way to do it, but if you don't think like Larry
>Wall none of those ways match the way you're looking for.
This isn't a problem for Perl programmers. That's kinda the point: Perl
fits the way we think. If it doesn't fit the way you think, I guess you
shouldn't use it.
>I hate the way it encourages idiots
It's not that perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language
rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool
has ever done.
--Erik Naggum
But, I'd add, it is also quite rewarding to good behavior.
>And to release things in public I'd be embarassed to admit I'd
>written.
Sounds like a personal problem.
At 10:03 -0500 2003.09.11, sabrina downard wrote:
>I /especially/ hate the way that the ten million ways to do it mean
>that you can never ever just look at someone else's code and easily
>see what they're doing -- again, unless you actually are Larry Wall
>-- because they inevitably chose a way you've never seen before and
>which doesn't actually make any sense at all just looking at it.
It's rare I see Perl code I can't easily decipher. YMV.
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