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   christian mock (cm@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 23:58:05 JST christian mock

   What I really hate about #perl is the Carp module, with "carp", "croak", "confess", "cluck" which make no sense as names, as opposed to "die" and "warn".

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 23:58:04 JST silverwizard

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     @cm Perl replaces builtins with puns, and standardizes on puns, this then creates some level of Secret Culture
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     christian mock (cm@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 00:04:16 JST christian mock

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     @silverwizard yes, and most of the rest of Perl is pretty straightforward (regarding built-in function names, let's not get into the syntax)...

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 00:04:29 JST silverwizard

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     @cm I love perl - but I'm not in its Culture. It means that I trip over their puns a lot.