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		skywhopper 3 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perl's decline was cultural You realize you can learn all of this easily online, I hope? Sure it turns out that a scripting language maintaining compatibility with scripts from 40+ years ago has some confusing aspects. That’s the price of such incredible staying power.

bigstrat2003 3 days ago | [–]

The point is not that such quirks are impossible to learn; the point is that they make the language extremely unpleasant to use.

radiator 1 day ago | [–]

You can learn them now, but you will forget them soon. That was the point, I believe.

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