Angbandish Fun (r.g.r.a highlights) - Some crude comments on Perl
Dunno about him, but for me, it's the fact that it looks like line noise, and
its syntaxes (note the plural) are weird, twisted, and unpredictable. (at least
to the uninitiated.)
Gotta love a language where constructs like @{${$_[0]}{data}} are not something
constructed by a sick, twisted mind, but was the first way I came up with to do
something without a bunch of temp variables. (OK, so that does make it the
product of a sick, twisted mind, but I didn't mean to be evil.)
Julian Lighton
Perl is not ONLY a horrendous syntactic abortion, it's also a design nightmare.
William "Billy" Tanksley
Yes, a lot of people use Perl, Cobol, Basic, and other spawns of the
crawling chaos. People do all kind of horrible things, but why should I?
Robert Ruehlmann
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I know, I'll use
regular expressions.'' Now they have two problems.
--jwz
William "Billy" Tanksley
If we're on the subject of computer languages that Should Not Exist, it's hard to beat the
Intercal manual for humor value.
David H. Thornley
It is an impressive work. I've seen strong men break down in tears
only a few chapters in.
Julian Lighton
