Comment Comment by dsr_ Nobody loves Perl, but it holds the world together.Perl is happily unoptimized for anything, and is usable for nearly everything. It's easy to write and easy to make it hard to read.You can write Lisp in Perl, and some people insist on it.The CPAN repository has a module for nearly everything, and an amazingly high percentage are well documented.There are some weirdos who love Perl. parent dsr_ 8 years ago
Perl is happily unoptimized for anything, and is usable for nearly everything. It's easy to write and easy to make it hard to read.
You can write Lisp in Perl, and some people insist on it.
The CPAN repository has a module for nearly everything, and an amazingly high percentage are well documented.
There are some weirdos who love Perl.