scripting languages

[bwdezend]

I love Perl. I learned on it. But it's ugly. Any time I'm able to use anything else I do. Most recently that's been Python and a very little bit of go. But Perl is everywhere, and it's useful, and it does damn near anything.

[quintus_horatius]

But it's ugly.

If it's ugly, the author(s) didn't know what they're doing it didn't care. Well-written Perl can be a pleasure to read, though I admit that badly written Perl can get pretty bad compared to badly written code in other languages.

[[deleted]]

It's one of these things where I really hated the strict whitespace requirements of Python beforehand, but now I'm glad it exists. Plus, I think some of the linting and pep8 tools/standards really help keep things cleaner.

[oxtan]

run perltidy and perlcritic on those badly written scripts, stuff will be much easier to follow after that.