While I don't agree with the author's opinion on Perl I'm in awe of their design. I love the look of their personal site.
Perl is only ubiquitous in the Linux/Unix world. Try running it on Windows. You have to install some half working package.
I have a strong dislike for Perl as I worked with it for many years. Much of that is that I knew nicer tools existed and I wanted to use them but some was they syntax. I hate the terse syntax and the gotchas.
You of course have to know the operators in Perl. There is a good reference https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop but I remember before I found that page in the docs I was lost.
Then there is the use of references. Do I need a \% here or just a % no wait I need a \$. It's not that hard but it's a friction I got sick of.
Yes all languages have their warts but I did not like Perl's even after almost a decade of working with it.
Perl is only ubiquitous in the Linux/Unix world. Try running it on Windows. You have to install some half working package.
I have a strong dislike for Perl as I worked with it for many years. Much of that is that I knew nicer tools existed and I wanted to use them but some was they syntax. I hate the terse syntax and the gotchas.
Issues like this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7515029/cant-turn-off-bu....
If you are new to Perl what is $|=1; going to mean to you?
Then there is the fun of "Wide strings" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9299941/perl-unicode-wid...
You of course have to know the operators in Perl. There is a good reference https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop but I remember before I found that page in the docs I was lost.
Then there is the use of references. Do I need a \% here or just a % no wait I need a \$. It's not that hard but it's a friction I got sick of.
Yes all languages have their warts but I did not like Perl's even after almost a decade of working with it.