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I kind of think it's ugly too.

But I think back many years, when I was put on a project written in Perl. At first I balked at the syntax.

I can see $foo on the right of the equals sign, but on the left? And $_ and @_ and regular expressions everywhere like line noise.

But working with it for a bit... and all of that just disappeared as I became fluent. They just started becoming idioms in my head. And after a while, I found Perl the most expressive language I've ever worked with.

So, maybe you just have to get over the hump?

(But yeah, I thought python was too ordered, but I switched and it's pretty much my favorite language presently)



Perl was great. I miss Perl. v_v


Yeah, sounds like I just need to get over some syntactical hangups.




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