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What's your favorite programming language and what about it do you like? (reddthat.com)
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[โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (8 children)

Perl. Its installed everywhere I need to run it and stuff I wrote over 20 years ago is still doing exactly what it should.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    You'll be damned if you ever need to know what exactly you made it do 20 years ago though as Perl is a write-only language ;p

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    That's the joke, but it's really not true.

    You can write unintelligable code in most languages.

    Perl's syntax is fine, and you can write beautiful code with it - but it will also let you write fugly code that works.

    I think those who say this seriously just don't understand Perl, or even programming generally. (Whilst I like Perl, I'm also proficient in C, Java, JS, Python, PHP, Bash and probably a few more, so I'm not just promoting the only thing I know.)

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