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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:17:58PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 20:13:31 +0100, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> > However for applications I hate perl! It is far to easy to write perl code
> > that is impossible to read, and some of those magic perl tricks can make
> > it even worse! There are so many nasty horrible things you can do with
> > perl, and far to many people use them ;) (usually all of them at once if
> > they possibly can!)
>
> Every time I hear this complaint I think of myself. I say exactly
> the same thing about the majority of PHP code I touch - but that is
> probably because I'm cleaning up security holes.
>
> Honestly I don't understand why Perl has this reputation. It is
> possible to do clever "tricks" in any environment interesting enough
> to be useful. Similarly a bad coder will be a bad coder regardless
> of implementation language.
I think there are two reasons for perl's reputation. One is that
perl has rather more awkward corners and bizarre-looking language
constructs than most non-stunt languages. The second is cultural...
One of my .sig lines reads:
"There's more than one way to do it" is not a commandment.
It is a dire warning.
I stand by that statement. :)
On the other hand, as one of the maintainers of a 130k-line perl
webapp, I can confirm that it *can* be written to be (mostly)
readable, maintainable, and sensible.
Hugo.
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