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"AI is gonne take our jobs." The AI: (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, the language itself should be as simple as possible. Bloating it with endless extensibility and features is exactly what makes Perl a write-only language in many cases and why it is becoming less and less relevant with time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Except it has some really good ideas that should be copied. There are other languages that have a syntax for denoting regex, such as ~r'foo' in Elixir. This gets the syntax highlighting you need without a big addition to the language.