| [Tags**|geek, perl, programming] [Current Mood** |
rodent]I'm enjoying writing Perl for exactly the same reason I loathe it as a language. It's arcane, it's complicated, it's subtle and intricate and occasionally just plain perverse.Sensible languages are more like creative engineering: you know what you want and you put it together with considerable artistry but also with a lot of nuts and bolts.Getting Perl to do what you want is more like trying to control an ecosystem of cuddly creatures that bite. |