hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different dialects.
Is it still worth using or is it bound to legacy software forever? Like cobol.
The illegible code claim has always baffled me.
You can write perfectly legible code in perl. You can write illegible code in python if you really want to.
Sure you can, doesn’t mean people do it. From my experience, they don’t.
The variable prefixes make it easy in Perl to write line noise, and there are much more “magical defaults”.
What’s the most illegible code you have found in Python?