Re^2: Musing on Perl's "Just Try It" Amazingness

Perl often looks more like line noise at first glance than well structured

So does every language, foreign, or not.
To a foreigner it would look *like* a language, but an incomprehensible one.

This is probably my second least favourite reference to Perl, right after "scripting language".

Software speaks in tongues of man; I debug, therefore I code.

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Re^3: Musing on Perl's "Just Try It" Amazingness by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 13, 2007 at 20:05 UTC
I should really (as I considered doing) have changed my sig back to "Perl is Huffman encoded by design" for that post. Line noise is generally considered random (although if needn't be). Conventionally written languages of any sort generally present some form of structure. It may be incomprehensible to the reader, but it looks like it does have meaning or at least a pattern. Perl on the other hand, especially in the small snippets you might find in one liners, can look almost like a random bunch of characters (line noise). That is more a function of Perl's succinct power than anything else. Perl is environmentally friendly - it saves trees	[reply]

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Re^3: Musing on Perl's "Just Try It" Amazingness
by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 13, 2007 at 20:05 UTC

I should really (as I considered doing) have changed my sig back to "Perl is Huffman encoded by design" for that post.

Line noise is generally considered random (although if needn't be). Conventionally written languages of any sort generally present some form of structure. It may be incomprehensible to the reader, but it looks like it does have meaning or at least a pattern.

Perl on the other hand, especially in the small snippets you might find in one liners, can look almost like a random bunch of characters (line noise). That is more a function of Perl's succinct power than anything else.

Perl is environmentally friendly - it saves trees

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