>What does /g/ think about Perl? I'm learning it for

References are a great idea, terribly implemented. And that's what I think about most features of Perl.

>>57002938
I don't trust it since Applebaum left.

>>57002938
Python does a lot of things half assed, but even as ugly as py is, it's often prettier on screen.

>>57002938

> Sadly, Larry focused sooooo hard on Unix integration and string processing that he totally forgot about lists and objects until it was far too late to implement them properly. In fact, a few key mistakes he made early on in Perl's... well, I hesitate to use the word "design" for whale guts, but let's call it Perl's "lifecycle" — those mistakes made it so hard to do lists and objects correctly that Perl has evolved into a genuine Rube Goldberg machine, at least if you want to use lists or objects.

>Lists and objects are pretty farging important too, Larry!

>Perl can't do lists because Larry made the tragically stupid decision early on to flatten them automatically. So (1, 2, (3, 4)) magically becomes (1, 2, 3, 4). Not that you ever want it to work this way. But Larry happened to be working on some problem for which it was convenient on that particular day, and Perl's data structures have been pure exploded whale ever since.

>Now you can't read a book or tutorial or PowerPoint on Perl without spending at least a third of your time learning about "references", which are Larry's pathetic, broken, Goldbergian fix for his list-flattening insanity. But Perl's marketing is so incredibly good that it makes you feel as if references are the best thing that ever happened to you. You can take a reference to anything! It's fun! Smells good, too!

<Perl can't do objects because Larry never reeeeally believed in them. Maybe that's OK; I'm still not quite sure if I believe in them either. But then why did he try adding them? Perl's OO is a halfhearted add-on that never caught on with the Perl community. It's just not as inspired as the string-processing or Unix integration stuff.

>-Steve Yegge

>>57002986
Could you elaborate? I couldn't find anything about this online

It's a great lang. I'm tired now I'll explain why tomorrow

>>57002938
Perl is great, but if are you learning it now, you might as well start with Perl 6. Compared to that, Python doesn't even come close.

>>57002938
From all the fukken dynamic garbage language it's the best.

Also, you can't have multiple interpreters with CPython, but you can with Perl.
Checkmate, Python.