its not that reading perl is hard, the _intent_ of the operations of often hard/unclear.
Yes its nice to write dense fancy code, however, something very boring to write like PHP is a lot of "loop over this bucket and do something with the fish in the bucket, afterwards, take the bucket and throw it into the bucket pile" that mirrors a 'human follows these steps' type.
Yes its nice to write dense fancy code, however, something very boring to write like PHP is a lot of "loop over this bucket and do something with the fish in the bucket, afterwards, take the bucket and throw it into the bucket pile" that mirrors a 'human follows these steps' type.