On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Pense, Joachim wrote:
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> > Frankly, I doubt that's true. There's a obfuscated C contest, but that
> > doesn't make people think C is inherently obfuscated.
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> People *do* think it is.
In my experience the single most confusing aspect of Perl to beginners
is the need to use $, @, and % in front of variable names. They don't see
the beauty in it and some get downright angry when they learn that to
access an array element you have to use $array[2] instead of @array[2], or
to access a hash element you'd use $hash{key} instead of %hash{key}.
The regular expressions don't help much either. :-)
Cheers,
Bernard
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echo 42|perl -pe '$#="Just another Perl hacker,"'
