Yeah, the inability to have a hash-of-hashes instead of a hash-of-hashrefs is silly. (Same for arrays.) That said, the only thing I really dislike about perl is the willful lack of formatting style endemic in the culture. Since that doesn't force me to write linenoise-ugly code, it isn't a huge drawback.
I grew to really despise Perl the moment that I tried to get intimate with its typing system. They really, in the early days, tried to make it transparent by having everything "scalarize" to different stuff, but they needed references which ended up coming later, and then they couldn't "scalarize" the hashes and arrays down references, which is what they should have been "scalarizing" to all along.
Between that and the "eighteen different ways to do one small thing" problem it has, I would rather write anything in any other language.
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Between that and the "eighteen different ways to do one small thing" problem it has, I would rather write anything in any other language.
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