Can you have too many programming language features?

https://www.thecodedmessage.com/posts/2022-05-11-programming-multiparadigm/

by belter • 4 years ago

1 3 4 years ago

hoestly sometimes I just wishes a language can just stays how it is now and stops adding new features…

"This is why Perl was commonly panned as a write-only programming language: It had so many features that you could not be up to speed on all of them. Each programmer at each point in time had a set that they used, but no one could ever get proficient at working in the entire available feature-set."

I do not think the author has ever written Perl.

This statement from the article undermines its credibility. Perl is no more complicated than Python or Ruby.

"It had so many features that you could not be up to speed on all of them", is just false.

"In Perl, the features were syntactic, so the programs would be unreadable at a line-by-line level."

Again, has the author ever read any Perl programs?

Lots of sample Perl programs:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Perl

anyfoo• 4 years ago

When it comes to statically-typed systems programming languages, C++ is the Perl, and Rust is the Python.

First sentence, and they already managed to make everyone furious.

Can you have too many programming language features?

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