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What is this, loves-perl? Release your anger, your hate! I've spent innumerable hours coding in Perl. If I was going to run off a web app or a little daemon, I'd probably use Perl to do it. But you know what? I hate Perl. I hate the fucking useless "continue" blocks. If I want to execute something just before the conditional is evaluated, then I'll *put it at the end of the loop*. I hate that I have to use a hack if I want proper multiple inheritance and object composition. I hate that, on Windows, Perl requires a backup extension to -i, but on *nix it does not. I hate that CPAN - a requirement for any serious Perl development - always wants to upgrade my Perl to the latest version when I just want to install a fucking module. I hate use English makes my programs run slower. I hate that Perl's memory manager can't handle circular references. I hate that Perl's object model encourages outside users to reach inside of an object and tweak its field values instead of using the accessors - and that this leads to people writing things without said accessors. I hate the total lack of a real type system. I could go on, getting in to the sorts of hate that Perl enables - s;foo;bar; anyone? - but I'll stop there. I'm sure you can fill in the rest. -- <> :#,_@ v <^ " Michael Leuchtenburg | http://slashhome.org/ " +73 ^ " cell: 413.433.0739 " +7<There's stuff above here
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