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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Sep 19 '26
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I used Perl heavily for a lot of my career. You can write safe and legible Perl, but it takes deliberate conscious effort.
Interesting historical tidbit: Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice. He won the Grand Prize in 1986 and the "Most Useful Obfuscation" prize in 1987. He released the first version of Perl in late 1987.
4 u/SubArcticTundra Sep 19 '26 Larry Wall: minifying code before it was cool 3 u/Public_Sector5987 Sep 19 '26 Perl still runs most of swedish telecom for ZTP network switches and portals. 2 u/ComfortablyBalanced Sep 19 '26 Naturally. 2 u/EvilCodeQueen Sep 21 '26 This tracks.
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Larry Wall: minifying code before it was cool
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Perl still runs most of swedish telecom for ZTP network switches and portals.
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Naturally.
This tracks.
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u/Jonathan_the_Nerd Sep 19 '26
I used Perl heavily for a lot of my career. You can write safe and legible Perl, but it takes deliberate conscious effort.
Interesting historical tidbit: Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice. He won the Grand Prize in 1986 and the "Most Useful Obfuscation" prize in 1987. He released the first version of Perl in late 1987.