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By mswatcher
via bofh.org.uk
Published: Mar 12 2010 / 00:39

Falling out of love with a language
I’m a Perl hacker. I have been for around 16 years now. Around 5 years ago, prompted by the Pragmatic Programmer and Adam Turoff, I started looking at Ruby, and Ruby on Rails and sort of fell into maintaining Typo. Why? I was getting hacked off with Perl.
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yakkoh replied ago:

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The blog says "...I may be rationalizing like mad.": yes.

I have notice that a language creator makes excellent decisions, then because of lack of time, stress, hubris (or plain personal preferences), he/she makes poor decisions and we (the programmers) have to live with these design decisions for along time.
There are no exceptions, including Ruby, Python, C#, Java and of course Perl.

The best we can hope for is that the bad decisions are concentrated in rarely used features.

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