🚀 go-pugleaf

In comp.lang.perl.misc, rust@Virginia.EDU writes:
:There is no need to sacrifice power for ease of use and learnability.
:There are a handful of languages at least as powerful as Perl, and
:several times more readable.

Name them.

:While you may fancy yourself a good enough programmer that you can
:code in Perl as fast as anything, Perl has really shown itself to be a
:"write only" language.  While you may not agree, I think that the more
:people who can read my programs, the better.  

If someone can't write perl programs that can be read by other programmers
of that language, that says more about the programmer than it does the
language.  If one expects people who don't actually know the language to
be able to read and maintain, then there's a different problem.

--tom
-- 
Tom Christiansen      Perl Consultant, Gamer, Hiker      tchrist@mox.perl.com

    Some are born to perl, some achieve perl, and some have perl
    thrust upon them.