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Elratio is a joke python-variant languge which I'd never heard of until just now. I'm fairly sure this post is a joke too.

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“A Python-based programming language that combines the performance of Ruby with the readability of Perl.”

…with the readability of Perl. Surely a joke.

I have written quite a lot of Perl code in my life. It was obvious to me what it did as I wrote it, but I have real problems understanding it/reading it now.

I suspect this was meant tongue-in-cheek given that Ruby is known to be a low-performance language and Perl code used to be compared to 'line noise' - think back to the times of analogue phone lines and modems which sometimes introduced noise into the data.

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