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This is good argument for amateur / experimental coding, but in business you need to read other's people code at least 20 times more often than to write your own and you have no time to read all the source code to find out what an actual line is doing (e.g. because the $[ pseudovariable and other demented ideas).

Perl will die because it is not readable enough. Programs must be maintained and Perl is unmaintainable. It will die because it is not simple enough. It will die because TIAMTOWTDI. It will die because Larry Wall does not know what is needed for a programming language to thrive. Perl will be always for people wanting to impress others with stuff only they understand.

I thought that Larry Wall will get it after 30 years of people's flaming about Perl's uninteligibleness. That he will tone down his zeal about letting people to define extra syntax. But no! You can define your own syntax in Perl 6 again.

He is making fun of you all.


In reply to Re^4: Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?! by Anonymous Monk
in thread Why do people say 'Perl' is dead?!?! by lblake

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