Post AlWspL8voV65TdEhZw by amerika
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 (DIR) Post #AlWsTTy6JwJgTekQ4m by nixCraft@mastodon.social
       2024-08-31T03:27:17Z
       
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       If you could delete one programming language permanently, which one would you delete? 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWsTUb5yxVaQazYrA by artemesia@techhub.social
       2024-08-31T03:31:04Z
       
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       @nixCraft Perl. It is impossible to write a non-trivial perl script without it turning into a contestant for obfuscated code of the year.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWsTVSGnG2j5Vs1js by ashwin@union.place
       2024-08-31T03:38:44Z
       
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       @artemesia @nixCraft Q: Which is obfuscated?A)class Test{    public static void main(String []args)    {        System.out.println("Hello from Java");    }};=======================B)say "Hello from Perl";=======================The worst thing about Perl is that it gives the programmers "too much rope", and n00b13 Perl programmers use it to flex their twisted brains.A well-written, non-trivial Perl can be as easy to read as English.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWsTWFXq3STYKvNXk by artemesia@techhub.social
       2024-08-31T03:41:16Z
       
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       @ashwin @nixCraft "non-trivial"
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWsTWodjZWzJBLPFI by tyil@fedi.tyil.nl
       2024-08-31T14:52:37.079Z
       
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       @artemesia@techhub.social @ashwin@union.place @nixCraft@mastodon.social I can make any language look ugly if you let me write enough lines in it. The trick for (almost) any language is to have a competent developer writing it. I would agree that #Perl allows more expressiveness than most languages, and it does allow you to easily write messy code, but similarly it allows a good developer to write clear and concise code that will run for literal decades without any intervention.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWspL8voV65TdEhZw by amerika
       2024-08-31T14:56:38.662740Z
       
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       @tyil @nixCraft @ashwin @artemesia Good Perl programmers always avoid typing-error-looking code. This has been true since the 1990s.
       
 (DIR) Post #AlWsr8LsLGPCNv96fI by amerika
       2024-08-31T14:56:58.114248Z
       
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       @nixCraft Ruby