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		Mithaldu on Jan 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Perl Didn't Win You're incorrect in your realization. The truth is that the older books for learning perl are simply shitty. If you read Ovid's Beginning Perl, or chromatic's Modern Perl, you'll find they managed to explain the concepts very easily.

not_kurt_godel on Jan 18, 2015 [–]

No, he's right. Perl is shitty. Have you ever read a random Perl script? It's impossible to interpret.

Mithaldu on Jan 18, 2015 | [–]

"No, he's right. Japanese is shitty. Have you ever read a random Japanese scroll? It's impossible to interpret. Even in romaji!"

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