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It's kinda ironic, since one of the three "virtues" of a Perl programmer is hubris, heh.

(re nobody codes in Perl: I still do professionally, and I'll probably never understand why it draws so much hate)

I write Perl, too, and I love it. I have comments, especially next to the regexes, but honestly, I think my code is readable and maintainable because I went back to it a year later and I still understand everything.

I still use it in my job every day too. It's just become a meme, the whole "write-only language" thing. No one says that about shell scripting, despite the sigils and plenty of stuff that becomes incomprehensible to almost anyone if you do anything very complicated. I'd much rather diagnose some newbie's Perl script than some of the commercially-distributed bash installers I've had to deal with.

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