2026-04-23 09:03 UTC
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot Back in the 1990's I programmed Perl professionally and it was truly amazing to see the reactions of other Perl programmers to functional Perl. Mostly negative but occasionally like a bolt of enlightenment.
I suppose it shouldn't be that surprising that it has good syntactic support for call-with style functions, as Perl has everything in there somewhere
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@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot 2026-04-23 09:06
@tfb@functional.cafe @vnikolov@ieji.de @janneke@todon.nl @spook@pleroma.m68k.church Indeed. I have myself seen some elegant, well structured, well documented code written in Perl. Some. Just as some people can write Fortran in any language, so, equally, there are some people who can write elegantly in any language. Some.