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Re:Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language ar... by jsrcout on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @01:50PM (#43258544)
Depends on who wrote it. My own Perl code, and plenty I've seen, is extremely clean and readable; sadly, a lot isn't. I'm sure clean and readable C++ exists, but the stuff I have to work with - big codebases with tons of history - is not. "Terrifying" would be more apt in most cases.
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Re:Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language ar... by aaronbaugher on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:34PM (#43269659)
The Perl code I write today is much cleaner and easier to follow than what I wrote 30 years ago. I hope that's true of my programs in other languages too.
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