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[insert useless subject here to placate use.perl] (Score:2)
> I posit that there's a whole swath of people that don't hate Perl
> for it's syntax, since they don't read all kinds of other ugly
> languages they use day to day.
>
> They hate it because running a typical Perl program as an
> untrained user is hard when it works, and impossible to setup
> when it is missing dependencies.
So about the same as EVERY OTHER LANGUAGE. Python, Ruby and Java all have the same problem of not making it at all clear how to resolve missing dependencies. Certainly m
Re:[insert useless subject here to placate use.per (Score:2)
Perl doesn't even really make it clear there IS a missing dependency.
It just says it can't load some file
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