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Hang on, this wasn't satire? I wasn't 100% sure so I came to see the comments and.. it seems I'm wrong :)



What did you think was satire? That variable names have dollar-signs in front of them? Haha, that's so funny!

Next we'll hear that Lisp has parentheses.


No, not the sigils, but the level of over-engineering just to get going. Look at that first code example. Unintelligible or what. If this is where Perl's going, I'm glad I ditched it several years ago.


It's unintelligible to use a "class" keyword for defining classes?


No.. why? Was that a joke? It's a poor show of one's convictions when one has to resort to playground tactics to try and make someone look silly rather than discuss something like an adult :(




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