Post AY00hb4WjzfSnISVSS by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
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 (DIR) Post #AXyrRwHl0bdPCv97QG by ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-07-23T08:30:04Z
       
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       [Perl] combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
       
 (DIR) Post #AXyrRx3G9zdFaFN3Sq by amiloradovsky@stereophonic.space
       2023-07-23T08:43:38.810669Z
       
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       @ColinTheMathmo it's industry-friendly implementation of Brainfuck
       
 (DIR) Post #AY00U0bh0QIjw2UacC by barubary@infosec.exchange
       2023-07-23T18:17:39Z
       
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       @ColinTheMathmo Well, jwz also thinks regex is hard, so I'd take his opinions with a grain of salt. 😛 That said, there is something to be said for the power of C: Perl is the only "scripting" language I've seen that lets you use kernel system calls directly, even if your libc doesn't support them yet.
       
 (DIR) Post #AY00hb4WjzfSnISVSS by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
       2023-07-23T09:37:10Z
       
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       @ColinTheMathmo "Perl is the programming language analog to vise-grip pliers:  Nearly always the *wrong* tool for the job, but wow is it useful..."
       
 (DIR) Post #AY00hcIOBwLmaZx5hg by wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net
       2023-07-23T14:25:39Z
       
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       @ColinTheMathmo Also?  Spend a few months in the bowels of Autoconf + M4 and I guarantee you'll stop complaining about Perl...
       
 (DIR) Post #AY00vpYpfVyhmhQA9A by eliasp@mastodon.social
       2023-07-23T17:55:10Z
       
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       @ColinTheMathmo I developed #Perl quite a few years for a living.This clearly showed, that the codestyle policies and their enforcement within a project/team makes all the difference for non-opionated languages like Perl.Some of the best structured, most readable code I ever saw was in Perl - but at the same time, you can write valid Perl code which is indistinguishable from trying to #OCR paint splatters:https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/
       
 (DIR) Post #AY00w2tW5vFR8cCMgy by eliasp@mastodon.social
       2023-07-23T17:56:24Z
       
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       @ColinTheMathmo …and when it all goes wrong, there's a certain truth to this quote by Keith Bostic:"Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption."#Perl