Perl as a Computer Language?

This is a small part of the perl documentation. Perl, yea that’s great but on the other hand you can write there terrible to maintain programs  (see perlgolf). What’s the perl syntax isn’t obvious even for the perl interpreter itself, see  below.

Note also that the interpolation code needs to make a decision on where the interpolated scalar ends. For instance, whether "a $b -> {c}" really means:

  "a " . $b . " -> {c}";

or:

  "a " . $b -> {c};

Most of the time, the longest possible text that does not include spaces between components and which contains matching braces or brackets. because the outcome may be determined by voting based on heuristic estimators, the result is not strictly predictable. Fortunately, it’s usually correct for ambiguous cases.

Source: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html

The part that I love most in the above sentence is the word “usually“.

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