Please dont take this seriously guys its just a dumb meme I haven't written a single line of code in half of these languages
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I love the term "write-only code", it's perfect. I used to love Perl as it felt like it flowed straight from my brain into the keyboard. What a free and magical language.
So it turned out I had ADHD. Took meds, went back to C/++ with renewed appreciation, haven't touched Perl since as it horrifies me to look at it. What a nightmare of dangling references and questionable typing. Any language that allows you to cast a string to a function and call it really needs to sit down and think about what it's doing.
Genuine LOL. Yeah... yeah, that's Perl in a nutshell. Creating Perl: 'why aren't all languages like this?!' Editing Perl: 'oh.'
I believe
evalwould like a word with you...As I said,
No such thing as eval in non-interpreted languages. Unless you're crazy enough to invoke the compiler and exec() the result.
I used eval too in my Perl days which is why I specifically called it out. IMO any time you see eval used there should be another, more proper way to do it.
I was joking, and definitely agree with you. I don't think I've used
evalsince my first programming course in uni.Edit: Except for monkey hacks for laughs of course.