[SunRescue] Anyone else here hate Perl?

[Chris Byrne]

I was reading some stuff on ESR's site the other day, and I came across his
article on Perl vs. Python, and I realized something.

I absolutely hate Perl.

The average perl construct of any complexity looks like random line noise
tied into knots, and is about as easy to follow if you weren't the original
programmer.

In my line of work I have to go through other peoples perl constantly, and
man it is a real son of a bitch. It's gotten to the point that when people
pitch a job to me I actually specifically  say "I dont want to deal with
other peoples perl"

Now don't get me wrong, I like the power and flexibility, but I just think
they have taken perl way to far. It started out as a relativley simple
replacement for awk, sed, and sh scripting, and it's still very good at
that, but people are now writing full applications in perl with GUI's etc...

To my mind, if you need the kind of capability that the really weird modules
provide you'd be much better off doing the thing in python or Java, or C.

Chris Byrne