It's official: Perl is random bullshit
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http://www.cs.siue.edu/~astefik/papers/StefikPlateau2011.pdf
Key sentence from the abstract:
[novice] Perl users were unable to write programs more accurately than those using a language designed by chance.
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Yeah, I saw this and LOL'd. I had to explain perl to my wife.
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It would be official if it was posted on the official Perl site. Right now, it is only empirical.
