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Shell metacharacters

Posted Feb 23, 2011 18:53 UTC (Wed) by jrockway (subscriber, #71508)
In reply to: Shell metacharacters by cmccabe
Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

What's wrong with Perl for new projects? New modern object systems like Moose? 20,000 free distributions on CPAN?

Honestly, people have written bad Perl in the past, but now they are writing bad Python and Ruby too :)

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Posted Feb 23, 2011 22:34 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Honestly, it's much easier to write bad Perl than bad Python. I'm a structure fanatic: my C, Python and Lua is structured as all hell. But I can't make my Perl look neat or structured no matter how hard I try: it disintegrates into a mess regardless.

And I am not the only person this is true of. Perl is a very messy language.