Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019)
by HackerThemAll on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:30AM
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Perl requires more brain power than most coders have, especially nowadays.
Perl has never disappointed me. Many years ago during just 2 weeks I'd written a few clever automations and orchestrations in Perl that had lasted with 100% availability for a decade after I changed that job. Even though my superior, the self-proclaimed "top coder manager all-in-one god" despised it (and me), he was incapable of comprehending and rewriting that. It was not because I obfuscated the code, but because of what I wrote in the first sentence above. In the end he hired a consultancy and got a monstrous solution in Java. But finally it was "his".
Perl has never disappointed me. Many years ago during just 2 weeks I'd written a few clever automations and orchestrations in Perl that had lasted with 100% availability for a decade after I changed that job. Even though my superior, the self-proclaimed "top coder manager all-in-one god" despised it (and me), he was incapable of comprehending and rewriting that. It was not because I obfuscated the code, but because of what I wrote in the first sentence above. In the end he hired a consultancy and got a monstrous solution in Java. But finally it was "his".