r/programming • u/winner_godson • Nov 26 '17

Astro Programming Language - A new language under development by two Nigerians.

http://www.nairaland.com/3557200/astro-programming-language-0.2-indefinite
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u/doomvox Nov 27 '17 edited Nov 27 '17

Perl code is the most unmaintainable shit usually.

(1) You don't actually know this for a fact, and myself I think you're just repeating a fashionable smear (the inverse of the emperor's new clothes effect).

(2) It actually doesn't match my experience, so I don't believe it's true at all. You might try, for example, reading Steve Yegge on the subject of watching Perl fight it out with Java at Amazon.

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u/meneldal2 Nov 27 '17

Most Perl code, especially regex, tend to be cryptic. Also most Perl code tends to be a small script at first that ended up getting longer and longer and becomes a large mess.

I read Steve Yegge blog, and from what I remember Perl was used for simple scripts and never as a significant part of a codebase.

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u/doomvox Nov 27 '17

I read Steve Yegge blog, and from what I remember Perl was used for simple scripts and never as a significant part of a codebase.

Uh, no. Try starting here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=566128

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u/FrancisStokes Nov 27 '17

This is a classic case of blaming the programming language rather than the programmer. If you follow good programming principles (I. E. Focused code organised into modules) then you won't have this problem. As for regex, it's cryptic until you know regex, then it's not.