• digdilem@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    Perl. Its installed everywhere I need to run it and stuff I wrote over 20 years ago is still doing exactly what it should.

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      11 months ago

      You’ll be damned if you ever need to know what exactly you made it do 20 years ago though as Perl is a write-only language ;p

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        11 months ago

        That’s the joke, but it’s really not true.

        You can write unintelligable code in most languages.

        Perl’s syntax is fine, and you can write beautiful code with it - but it will also let you write fugly code that works.

        I think those who say this seriously just don’t understand Perl, or even programming generally. (Whilst I like Perl, I’m also proficient in C, Java, JS, Python, PHP, Bash and probably a few more, so I’m not just promoting the only thing I know.)