in reply to Perl aesthetics: the good, the bad, the ugly.

"Perl's main drawback is that parts of it are irredeemably ugly, complicated, and must be used with caution and in stereotyped ways lest they bite (its argument-passing conventions for functions are a good example of all three)"

I have seen so many variations of this statement and it still seems to say absolutely nothing to me about Perl. It seems to me that you could put almost any language at the front and find some aspect(s) of it that fit the description.

As regards the arguement-passing convention, is it really so complicated? that much more so than say C's? And there is such an elegant way to use the parameter passing, the hash method; In most languages such a divergent solution from the standard wouldn't be possible.

I started using an example of a string in C but decided it was long winded and didn't really add anything... It just made me happy I have Perl.

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