2026-04-23 09:06 UTC
@tfb@functional.cafe @vnikolov@ieji.de @janneke@todon.nl @spook@pleroma.m68k.church
Indeed. I have myself seen some elegant, well structured, well documented code written in Perl.
Some.
Just as some people can write Fortran in any language, so, equally, there are some people who can write elegantly in any language.
Some.
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@tfb@functional.cafe 2026-04-23 11:18
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @vnikolov@ieji.de @janneke@todon.nl @spook@pleroma.m68k.church The thing I found interesting about functional programming in Perl is just how much the language (not APIs obviously) did not work against you. Refer to things by value, don't try to mutate references, use closures, and things are easier. The ref counter doesn't get confused. The whole language and a lot of its weird warts just ... work.