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Perl with list comprehensions do look a bit like line noise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang...
... but not really worse than most other languages there.
By contrast, its "higher order functions" are useful but relatively speaking, read like someone shook a box of leftover syntax all over them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function#Perl
Even though C# has a seizure in the middle, Perl still seems the clunkiest.
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Perl with list comprehensions do look a bit like line noise...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_lang...
... but not really worse than most other languages there.
By contrast, its "higher order functions" are useful but relatively speaking, read like someone shook a box of leftover syntax all over them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_function#Perl
Even though C# has a seizure in the middle, Perl still seems the clunkiest.