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Re:Perl 5.38 Released by nrdvana on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:43PM (#36576372)
"one big game of code golf" would probably be a decision by the author, wouldn't it? I know a person or two who could fall into that category, but it's hardly the fault of the language.
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Re:Perl 5.38 Released by Klonoar on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @01:55AM (#36582716)
No, this is specifically a comment on the syntactical choices often found in Perl codebases and the penchant for brevity that is common in that community.
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