Re:A little thing to love about Perl 6 and COBOL
by muraiki on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @08:14PM
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When I first started writing perl professionally, I kept trying to write things in a lispy functional style, which only made a mess. While it's true that There Is More Than One Way To Do It, there's still such a thing as "perlish perl" and by adopting this style I ended up writing some very pleasant and easy to read code.
Much of the uglyiness can come from trying to write code for another language in perl syntax. Perl lets you write code that looks live Java, or C, or many other languages, but it usually ends up looking ugly. I see a lot of this.
But when you write perlish perl, especially using modern features of the language, then... yeah. It can look as beautiful as any other language.