programmeing (Hot Take)
I miss being able to write Perl in production without feeling dirty.
programmeing (Hot Take)
Perl's got two big fundamental flaws that make it ill-suited to production environments. It tries to understand intent, so it produces garbage at times when it should fail hard. It also provides too many metaphors for people to use, so making it readable relies on conventions, not the interpreter. That kills it for me for code I have to maintain in a production environment.
For personal stuff, though? Oh yeah, gimme them dollar signs and underscores. I'ma roll in 'em.
programmeing (Hot Take)
@literorrery i had to migrate a perl project to python once
a chill shudder goes through my back every time i try to recall how that project was organized. it made 0 sense and yet it worked
programmeing (Hot Take)
@vahnj "Organized" Perl. Hee! =n.n=