Re:Can you have too many programming language features?
by thesuperbigfrog on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @07:09PM
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"This is why Perl was commonly panned as a write-only programming language: It had so many features that you could not be up to speed on all of them. Each programmer at each point in time had a set that they used, but no one could ever get proficient at working in the entire available feature-set."
I do not think the author has ever written Perl.
This statement from the article undermines its credibility. Perl is no more complicated than Python or Ruby.
"It had so many features that you could not be up to speed on all of them", is just false.
"In Perl, the features were syntactic, so the programs would be unreadable at a line-by-line level."
Again, has the author ever read any Perl programs?
First sentence, and they already managed to make everyone furious.
I do not think the author has ever written Perl.
This statement from the article undermines its credibility. Perl is no more complicated than Python or Ruby.
"It had so many features that you could not be up to speed on all of them", is just false.
"In Perl, the features were syntactic, so the programs would be unreadable at a line-by-line level."
Again, has the author ever read any Perl programs?
Lots of sample Perl programs:
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Perl