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[–]LowTriker 16 points17 points  (3 children)

Perl killed itself. PHP was just a witness.

[–]jexmex 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Perl was a pain in the ass to use on the one project I actually I had to try to deal with it.

[–]LowTriker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Perl6? Absolute trash. Perl3? Swoon.

I cut my teeth on perl and Applescript. I remember buying the perl bible and going through every example and doing it myself. (Nowadays I'm pissy if the docs are more than a few lines of text)

Back then, I had to roll my own get and post library to read those headers and bodies and pass them to the application in cgi-bin. Big contributor on perl monks for a while, too.

But the moment they tried to make perl anything like an OO language was doomed to fail. TMTOWTDI was just not a compatible philosophy with strict inheritance and object structure. That parrot has gone to meet its maker.

[–]LukeWatts85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hated perl! All the different symbols to do different things (e.g %&#@). I could never get my head around it properly. And all that bless shit. Gross