It's very unpopular to mention Perl, but I did many cool things with it back in the day, and it still holds a special place for me. Perl taught me the power of regex--it's really first class in Perl. I still have some Perl code in production today. But to be fair, it is really easy to write spaghetti in Perl if you don't know what you're doing.

don't worry about unpopularity, bro. worry about being true. the rest will take care of itself. if not, you are in the wrong company, forum, or place, and better to work on getting out of there.

> But to be fair, it is really easy to write spaghetti in Perl if you don't know what you're doing.

bro, you really need to educate yourself some more, if you say things like that.

baloney!

first of all, perl is already spaghetti. I mean, it has all those curlicues, aka sigils. perl devs love it that way.

second of all, that point about being able to write spaghetti is not unique to perl.

many people do it in many languages.

in fact it is common here on hn to see the statement "you can write fortran in any language".

They’re probably downvoting you because you’ve posted like the laziest trope comment there is. lol Python slow everyone is paid to hide the truth amirite

thanks for your viewpoint, but i doubt it. one of them (user jacob019) talked about the "need" to be tactful (in a thread about software, aka logic !!!) and the same guy tried to divert the topic to perl, in another comment. I'm damn sure it's the upton sinclair syndrome at work, as I posted, also in this subthread, i.e. they are lying because of vested interests, like salary. another way of describing it is "The emperor's new clothes", that well known fable about hypocrisy and sycophancy for gain.

Your comments feel like you want a reddit style battle of wits. You throw words like ignorant around rather freely. I downvote these comments because they lower the tone of the discussion. We're not here to talk about each other or feel smarter than others.. Well I'm not.

I don't give a flying fuck about your feelings or your opinions about my comments, just as you should not about mine. i am a free man. you should try to be one too. we can talk to each other, but that does not mean that either of us has to believe or be convinced by what the other person says. is this not fuckingly blindlingly obvious to you?

if not, you have a serious perception problem.

yes, I do throw around words, just like anyone else, but not freely, instead, I do that after at least some thought, which I do not see happening in the people whom I replied to, nor in your comment above.

why not, ffs? particularly when the person insults you? are you a sissy?

One day your ISP emails you that they increased your upload and download speeds. Sweet, right? Same here with Python.

sweet? no, bitter. 'cause you're moving goalposts, ha ha. utterly flawed logic, bro, on a site which is about software, so about logic. but you know it, don't you? so stop trying to con me. ain't gonna work.

as I said in this thread, see the Upton Sinclair quote.

getting a speed improvement is fine but not the same thing as being slow in the first place, like python is. don't pretend you don't know it. or if you don't, you have no business talking.

kthxbye ;)

why so much deliberate fakery on hn? i know. upton sinclair again.