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Perl programming language criticized as incomprehensible, open to AI contributions

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A user on Mastodon expressed a negative sentiment towards the Perl programming language, stating it is incomprehensible and suggesting it would be the most likely language to accept AI-generated code. The user also shared a link to a GitHub pull request related to Perl. AI

RANK_REASON User opinion piece on a programming language, not a significant industry event.

Read on Mastodon — fosstodon.org →

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Perl programming language criticized as incomprehensible, open to AI contributions

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24619/files Not surprised. Perl sucks anyways and to be honest if anyone actually can write it without a machine that's impre

    https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/24619/files Not surprised. Perl sucks anyways and to be honest if anyone actually can write it without a machine that's impressive because Perl is genuinely just incomprehensible so the one programming language in the world I'd think would accep…

    LINKS github.com/…/files

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