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It was thus said that the Great Yoz Grahame once stated:
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> The many slightly-different invocations, the module-driven Perl
> variations and basically all the TMTOWTDI-ness is great for
> flexibility but it is also deeply, deeply hateful. Firstly, for what
> it does to both The Principle Of Least Surprise; secondly, for the
> amount of brain-space I need to allocate to being able to handle all
> the different ways I will encounter of doing the same fucking thing.
THANK YOU! That's what I was trying to get across---Perl violates the
Principle of Least Surprise ("What do you mean I can't pass file handles?").
> As for language hate: how come nobody's mentioned PHP yet? Because,
> fucking hell, do I have some SERIOUS bile worked up there...
Oh God! I'm having flashbacks to osCommerce ... aieeeeeeeeee!
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