hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different dialects.
Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.
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The variable prefixes make it easy in Perl to write line noise, and there are much more “magical defaults”.
What’s the most illegible code you have found in Python?
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You can write illegible code in any language.
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.
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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.
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