Re: Question about wizard Perl programmers

LovesHisLittleShad wrote:
Am I wrong, or does the Perl language literally attract the wizards of
the world to it, more than other languages? Consider the following
code someone wrote that I found on a web site:

Well, you can write impossible-to-read code in just about any langugage.
Consider the following snippet of legal Java code:

/* Just Java
Peter van der Linden
April 1, 1996.

\u0050\u0076\u0064\u004c\u0020\u0031\u0020\u0041\u0070\u0072\u0039\u0036
\u002a\u002f\u0020\u0063\u006c\u0061\u0073\u0073\u0020\u0068\u0020\u007b
\u0020\u0020\u0070\u0075\u0062\u006c\u0069\u0063\u0020\u0020\u0020\u0020
\u0073\u0074\u0061\u0074\u0069\u0063\u0020\u0020\u0076\u006f\u0069\u0064
\u006d\u0061\u0069\u006e\u0028\u0020\u0053\u0074\u0072\u0069\u006e\u0067
\u005b\u005d\u0061\u0029\u0020\u007b\u0053\u0079\u0073\u0074\u0065\u006d
\u002e\u006f\u0075\u0074\u002e\u0070\u0072\u0069\u006e\u0074\u006c\u006e
\u0028\u0022\u0048\u0069\u0021\u0022\u0029\u003b\u007d\u007d\u002f\u002a

*/

It compiles and runs. Does this make Java a very difficult language? (It
simply prints "Hi!", in case you're interested.)

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Alex
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