Stewart Stremler wrote:
My Perl is rusty enough to where I need to grab a book to read
nontrivial Perl code.
Even when I'm up-to-date, I need a book to read Perl code.
TMTOWTDI (there's more than one way to do it) is great when you are
writing code. It absolutely *sucks* when trying to read it.
The problem is that *every* Perl user has a different set of idioms that
they learned. So, when reading code, you have to know *all* of the Perl
idioms. Sorry, I just don't want to waste that kind of time.
Even with Python, there is some idiomatic variation, but it's far less
than Perl. That's my reason for dumping Perl.
Also, Perl needs to suck it up and put named groups in its regex engine.
Every modern regex engine *except* Perl already has them. For the
language that prides itself on regexes, it really needs to finish that up.
-a
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