Have you ever maintained some else's poorly written Perl code? I have. Rational or not, I hate Perl.
And yes you can write crappy code in any language, but Perl is just asking for a bad programmer to write bad code.
And yes you can write crappy code in any language, but Perl is just asking for a bad programmer to write bad code.
We necessarily can't do terse and readable. To be terse enough we need to encode. Encode is just another way to say obfuscate, in this context anyway.
I wouldn't necessarily agree Perl asks for a programmer to write bad code (saying this as someone who left Perl because he was fed up with write-only code). I'd phrase it as Perl readily facilitates bad code.
I don't what you mean by the term 'poorly written Perl code'. I have maintained more horrible code in languages like Java than in Perl.
>>but Perl is just asking for a bad programmer to write bad code.
And what is that wand that other programming languages have, that when cast with a spell magically transform a bad programmer into a Dennis Ritchie?