"I can read this Perl scrip"t should translate to “I’m lying”.

I’m one of those people who think that Perl is a write-only language
-Linus torvalds

I can’t read this perl script may also apply to something you wrote last week.

The first phrase spoken when opening a new project, be it yours or someone elses… “What the fuck…”

“The reason I use Perl is because I wanna write scripts that no one can read and no one can understand so that I can keep my job”

I’m absolutely guilty of self-documenting code, but mostly because I’m sick of everyone else’s lying comments.

IMHO it’s a complex, temporary work around with a few issues.

Also vim > emacs

Of course, the correct way to quit Vi is ^Zpkill vi.

The best way I know to quit vi is by turning off your computer

Emacs babyyyy

Good reference with lots of truth. Maybe, I should print it before having a meeting with other tech teams.

I’ve been seeing a lot of Perl jokes lately and as far as legacy code I haven’t had to edit anything written in that in 25 or so years. For those that haven’t used it, getting form variables and rudimentary things like that were like equivalent to regular expressions, everything had some obscure expression you had to look up or copy paste.

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