Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension

Posted Oct 24, 2005 4:32 UTC (Mon) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
In reply to: Reading Comprehension by ncm
Parent article: Technologies to Watch: A Look at Four That May Challenge Java's Development Dominance (O'ReillyNet)

>> Perl really is a horrendous language for anything that's going
>> to be looked at by somebody else (or, indeed, ever again).

i am already dealing with one poster providing unsubstantiated claims about perl. if you want to chime in, provide something concrete, and don't go digging up perl golf results or obfuscation contests, every language is subject to willful syntax vandalism.

as it stands i also code daily in php (vastly inferior to perl, which it is trying to ape in many ways), and ruby (syntactically sweet, but lacking a CPAN equivalent), so i don't feel i'm speaking from a perl penalty box.

i'm not a complete fanboi though, as you will see from this thread i am highly critical of the perl6 process.

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