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theshrike79 on June 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly

The problem is that it takes a lot of skill to write elegant Perl. The easy way is the one that produces write-only crap.

carlmr on June 25, 2020 [–]

The problem with any language like this is that you have to work with others, and if others produce write only code that's your problem, too.

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