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Yep! Early in my career I was like many on Fedi — hated the idea of programming language forcing coding style on me, having wrote some Perl and having near no experience in Python, I've seen a well-maintained framework in Perl turn into an absolute mess when being actively worked on by a team under a time constraint.
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It was then when I realised why inline regexes might seem neat, but are actually are a horrible idea — that is precisely why they were implemented so awkwardly in Python — to make them seem more like functions and be named and documented accordingly…
Ever since then I never had the incentive to touch Perl again 😄
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Indeed, there are ways to keep Perl code maintainable, but when everyone is stressed out, when you're under peer-pressure to have a quick'n'dirty fix pass the code review because other people depend on it… I know that in real world these things would happen — this was a rather harsh eye-opener — it was then when I was seeing hashes passed as parameters grow indefinitely.