in reply to Re: What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff
in thread What esteemed monks think about changes necessary/desirable in Perl 7 outside of OO staff
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What is common between PL/1 and Perl is the amount of unjustified hate from CS departments and users of other languages toward them.
What I think is common about both is that, while being very unorthodox, they are expressive and useful. Fun to program with. As Larry Wall said: "Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as 'Unix'."
Unorthodox nature and solutions in Perl which stems from Unix shell is probably what makes people coming from Python/Java/JavaScript background hate it.
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