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Perl still relevant in 2023/24?
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The illegible code claim has always baffled me.
You can write perfectly legible code in perl. You can write illegible code in python if you really want to.
Define "people". People you work with? Old codebases from your workplace?
Well, from my experience, people don't write illegible perl code.
You can write illegible code in any language.
The variable prefixes make it easy in Perl to write line noise, and there are much more "magical defaults".
What's the most illegible code you have found in Python?
How is type information noise instead of a helpful feature?
I haven't looked for illegible Python code out there.
Writing legible Perl code is the complete antithesis of what the language was created for. This comment shows a complete misunderstanding of Larry Wall’s work.
Lol what are you talking about?! What is this LW's point you're referring to? "Write non-readable code, everyone"?
I'm guessing you're referring to him saying "there's more than one way to do things", and that's not mutually exclusive from writing legible code.
http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0012.html
There’s an obfuscated C contest too - no one ever assumed that K&R opposed highly legible code. I seem to recall that Kerrigan actually wrote some books to the contrary.
That's a non-argument, man. You just linked to a contest.
That's like saying that the FAA endorses unsafe airplane building practices because they hold a contest about unmanned cardboard made planes that fly the most length in a desert without crashing.