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#perl is still a great choice! This is a post which I wrote a few months ago, but I didn't share it yet on the Fediverse! foo.zone/gemfeed/2022-05-27-pe… #perl5 #perl7 (also includes a small paragraph about #perl6 #raku #RakuLang)
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in reply to Paul Buetow

@Perl there have been several formative tech moments in my life, learning #Perl was the first, later #Vim and #Git. I've tried learning #python, but for some reason it just won't go in. Perl has always felt just right.

Learning how to code beautiful Perl so that it is easy to read is a must and it can be done, you just have to give up all those clever shortcuts.

in reply to chrisjrob

@chrisjrob @Perl #PerlTidy and #PerlCritic also help with readable, maintainable, and consistent #Perl code. I like to joke that I don’t have a style, I have a perlcritic policy.