Re:On the Decline of Perl – external factors
by emodendroket on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:27AM
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I think this is pretty common though. Most language communities converge on some standard way of doing things. I always try to go along with the philosophy of the language I’m working in, even if I wouldn’t necessarily choose that myself from a blank slate.
This always felt like an excessive over-reaction to Perl's "there's more than one way to do it" motto and never struck me as desirable or true.
In the earlier days of Python I remember reading StackOverflow questions which attracted differing solutions and Python advocates (who were a bit abrasive at the time) would reconcile this with the above by saying some answers weren't sufficiently "pythonic". It all seemed rather strange.