renzev@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agoSolutions? Where we're going, we don't need solutions.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageSolutions? Where we're going, we don't need solutions.lemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
Please dont take this seriously guys its just a dumb meme I haven’t written a single line of code in half of these languages
minus-squareneidu2@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 years agoPerl: Problem -> $ @ % <=> =()= => ; qw() ])} select(undef, undef, undef, 0.25) =~ tr/.?\w\sREg3xfr0mhe|l/foo/g; &homebrewedFunction(%) -> solution Source: I mainly code in perl. I like it, but I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not a beautiful language. I was about to make an entry for lisp here, but I don’t have enough parentheses to draw the path to the solution.
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoI was hired twice to write Perl, both times switched my department to something else after a few years. Perl is good for command line processing, and absolutely god awful read-only magic hacks. Nothing else.
minus-squareneidu2@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoPerl is fine, provided that you never have to touch someone elses code.
minus-squareneidu2@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoNo. My code is perfect. It’s all of the others who write bullshit. Every perl dev ever
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoBe honest: you just mashed your fist on the keyboard, didn’t you?
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoI personally never understood how anyone could find Perl appealing or even “good” to program in, probably because I could never understand wtf the code was meant to do
Perl:
Problem -> $ @ % <=> =()= => ; qw() ])} select(undef, undef, undef, 0.25) =~ tr/.?\w\sREg3xfr0mhe|l/foo/g; &homebrewedFunction(%) -> solution
Source: I mainly code in perl. I like it, but I’ll be the first to admit that it’s not a beautiful language.
I was about to make an entry for lisp here, but I don’t have enough parentheses to draw the path to the solution.
I was hired twice to write Perl, both times switched my department to something else after a few years.
Perl is good for command line processing, and absolutely god awful read-only magic hacks. Nothing else.
Perl is fine, provided that you never have to touch someone elses code.
Or yours
No. My code is perfect. It’s all of the others who write bullshit.
Be honest: you just mashed your fist on the keyboard, didn’t you?
I personally never understood how anyone could find Perl appealing or even “good” to program in, probably because I could never understand wtf the code was meant to do