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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.
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...
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Does PERL still count as mainstream?
Because PERL.
I was going to say perl
I vote for perl as well.
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.
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.
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...