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

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Sam Ferree

Does PERL still count as mainstream?

Because PERL.

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Kevin

I was going to say perl

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Blaine Osepchuk

I vote for perl as well.

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mbtts • Edited

I haven't found any of the C style/family languages that bad, but Perl would probably get my vote. In the code I looked at and wrote there were too many squiggles and not enough words. In worst cases looks like hieroglyphics to me.

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Nancy Deschenes • Edited

Totally PERL. Except maybe it doesn't count, as it is, afterall, a write-once language.

If you need to read it, you're better off rewriting it, it'll be faster and easier.

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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...