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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by kamaal on Thursday February 27, 2014 @11:03PM (#7317182)
>>It's really hard to write unreadable crap in Java.

I work on legacy Java code bases every day, where I see thousands of lines of code all to just simply set and read variables.

I'm not sure how that's even remotely described as readable.

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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by rat87 on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:42AM (#7317865)
It's readable and easily followed spaghetti code it just obscures what the programs means with unnecessary details.
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