Peter Robinson wrote:
I was meaning not to chime in on this discussion, but I think people are missing the point. You can write clear or befuddled code in any language you choose, and saying perl is harder to understand is kind of like saying Chinese is harder to understand than English if that happens to be your native language.
This is disingenious to say the least. Are you trying to say that brainfuck is just as clear as, say, Perl? For some examples:
http://esoteric.sange.fi/brainfuck/bf-golf-results/results0.txt
Extreme cases, to be sure, and yet Perl has such a lovely thing as this
${$foo} which is far simpler in Python (being just foo). Just as brainfuck
is, as it's name implies, a brain fuck so too is Perl harder to read than
Python. That isn't a matter of subjectiveness. It can be argued on a
quantifiable level.
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