As Adam Turoff explained once, Perl has two subtle advantages: manipulexity and whipuptitude. It's very important to be able to solve the problem at hand simply and easily without languages and tools and syntax getting in your way. That's whipuptitude. Manipulexity is the ability to use simple tools and build a sufficiently complex solution to a complex problem.
Not everyone who starts learning Perl for whipuptitude needs manipulexity right away, if ever, but having a tool that supports both is amazingly useful. That's where Perl's always aimed--making the easy things easy and the hard things possible, even if you don't traditionally think of yourself as a programmer.
Apparently the ethos of this website is a far cry from the sentiments above! Here on Perlmonks it seems the order of the day is to be cryptic, verbose and to aim at making code as efficient and elite as possible, screw making things easy, forget simplicity... what you need to do is study reams and reams CPAN modules, the highest order of perl possible, and to show absolute GRADE A++ P.H.D computing knowledge. Otherwise your a fool, an idiot and you ought to give up programming entirely because your not good enough.
BAD RELIGION!!!!
I wonder how long this post will last before the jackbooted mods around here reap it for whatever stuffy snobby elitist reason they feel like giving. (Thank the gods for copy-n-paste!!)In reply to Bad Religion! by Logicus
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