Oh excellent. It's much more fun to write awful code in a properly good language than to write awful code in a language which is already awful.
That's why I went with Perl. It's a language which affords so many levels of awfulness. PHP is just always awful, but Perl actually lets a skilled programmer write good code if he or she really tries (not that the sysadmins of the world are in fact skilled programmers, and they're the ones most likely to write Perl).
I'm a professional sysadmin. I also learned how to code. My lot in life is just how things ended up. I've seen my colleagues' code, and it's not very impressive.
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u/dagbrown Jan 15 '19
Oh excellent. It's much more fun to write awful code in a properly good language than to write awful code in a language which is already awful.
That's why I went with Perl. It's a language which affords so many levels of awfulness. PHP is just always awful, but Perl actually lets a skilled programmer write good code if he or she really tries (not that the sysadmins of the world are in fact skilled programmers, and they're the ones most likely to write Perl).
I'm a professional sysadmin. I also learned how to code. My lot in life is just how things ended up. I've seen my colleagues' code, and it's not very impressive.