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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by gotofritz on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:02AM (#12889740)
> I think the Perl community had a lot to do with Perl falling off in popularity. The standard reply to questions posted the "Beginners Perl" mailing list was "RTFM dumbass".

Perl is the only language where devs see unreadability as a badge of coolness, indeed there was even an Obfuscated Perl Contest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscated_Perl_Contest

(There are golfing competitions in other languages, for example js1k, but the focus there is download size, the fact the code is obfuscated is a side effect rather than the point)

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by oblib on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:45PM (#12894294)
I remember those... And let's not forget Perl Poetry:

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_1/tpj0501-0012.html

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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by int_19h on Monday November 07, 2016 @04:21AM (#12889804)
Um, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Cod... was there 12 years before OPC.
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Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't Perl 6 taken off yet? by gotofritz on Monday November 07, 2016 @05:08AM (#12889970)
TIL
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