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   Colin the Mathmo (colinthemathmo@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 06:59:48 JST Colin the Mathmo

   [Perl] combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski

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     Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔ (wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 07:01:51 JST Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔

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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..."

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     Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔ (wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 07:03:42 JST Roger Crew✅❌☑🗸❎✖✓✔

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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...

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     Elias Probst (eliasp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 07:04:26 JST Elias Probst

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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/

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     Elias Probst (eliasp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Jul-2023 07:05:08 JST Elias Probst

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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

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