Usually, perl's "line noise" reputation is considered "bad" by those who use it to describe Perl code's look.

Precisely. The detractors look at Perl and the absolute worst thing to their minds that they can say about it is, "ooh, ooh, it looks like line noise". Well that's just fine by me.

What do people say about Java? It's a massive resource hog. PHP? It's a security nightmare. Perl? Line noise. Quelle horreur.

Even better than that this line noise reputation may well serve as a quality filter of sorts. Do we really want such people who are put off by a little complexity of syntax to be tangling with all the power that Perl provides? I think that they and us are both better served by them using other platforms.

In short, I contend that Perl's "line noise reputation" (whether a valid criticism or not) is not inherently the bad thing which your previous post supposes.

In reply to Re^11: howto parse (or determining end) of a line of perl by hippo
in thread howto parse (or determining end) of a line of perl by perl-diddler

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