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Discussion on: Which mainstream programming language has the ugliest syntax?

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Michael Scott Shappe

I don't understand why Perl is so low down in this list. It should have been dead first. I mean, I used to adore Perl, because of what you could do with it--it was the first of the "scripting" languages that felt really capable, and for a while I wrote everything in it.

But go back and try to read it, even if you wrote it yourself...gah...