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Why people dislike Perl?

September 27, 2007

by Fabio Kung

#!perl -l12e
$_=1;($_,$?)=($?,$_+$?),print while$_<4e3

OMG: Fibonacci series in one line of perl.

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Kenzo permalink

September 28, 2007 11:52 am

This is funny too:

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=45213

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Marcos Silva Pereira permalink

November 14, 2007 3:04 am

Maybe people “dislike Perl” exactly because lines like that?

Kind Regards

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Ricardo Guiraldelli permalink

December 16, 2007 2:59 pm

People dislike, at most, Perl because they never tried to program using that.

The Perl motto “There is more than one way to do it” explains how Perl works. That line of code is one of so many manners of writting a Fibonacci sequence.

Perl is famous because is easy (it is based on “natural language”) and is “the origin” of PHP, Ruby and Python.

“Disliking” Perl is most of stigma than truth.

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Pedro permalink

June 2, 2009 10:44 am

My eyes bleed.

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