Perl is a messy, maddening programming language, the “duct tape of the internet.” But at least you can tell it was made by humans.
Even at its peak use, the popularity of Perl was always a bit surprising. Perl is an undeniably messy language. It’s often referred to as the “duct tape of the internet,” with programmers joking that it’s a “write-only” language: You write in it but seldom read it . There is an amalgamated mashup nature to Perl, all in service of its motto: “There’s More Than One Way to Do It.” Just as there are synonyms in English, Perl has a variety of approaches to writing the same thing.
As Wall once said: “I’m a firm believer that a language … ought to be an amoral artistic medium.” If Perl has any overarching vision or dogma, it’s merely the fact that, perhaps, there shouldn’t be programming dogma at all. To be clear, I was never a deep user of Perl. Its syntax and messiness overwhelmed its power for me, and when I was introduced to the well-ordered structure of Python, I ran to that language and never really looked back.
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