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Perl still relevant in 2023/24?
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Writing legible Perl code is the complete antithesis of what the language was created for. This comment shows a complete misunderstanding of Larry Wall’s work.
Lol what are you talking about?! What is this LW's point you're referring to? "Write non-readable code, everyone"?
I'm guessing you're referring to him saying "there's more than one way to do things", and that's not mutually exclusive from writing legible code.
http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol3_2/tpj0302-0012.html
There’s an obfuscated C contest too - no one ever assumed that K&R opposed highly legible code. I seem to recall that Kerrigan actually wrote some books to the contrary.