[rescue] Python > 3.6 on Solaris 10

[Phil Stracchino]

On 10/16/21 1:41 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 10/16/21 1:39 PM, Jonathan Chapman wrote:
>> I don't know...I think I'd take Perl's legacy cruft and peculiarities over the
>> pain that was the Python 2 -> 3 transition :P
> 
>    Well I certainly can't disagree with you there. (and I'm someone who 
> can almost always find a way to disagree)  I'm no big fan of Python; any 
> language in which whitespace is a syntactic element rubs me the wrong 
> way.  But Perl still looks like line noise to me.

The thing is, it doesn't HAVE to.

It certainly CAN.  And some people think that because it CAN, it SHOULD.
But they're wrong.

It sounds to me like your actual objection to Perl is that a lot of
people write crappy, unreadable, idiomatic Perl code.  Perl *can* be
abused in that way, certainly.

But so can, for example, C.


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