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Sigils are why I gave up learning PERL. Everything I learned had a half life of 10 minutes.

I haven't programmed C in a decade, I still remember most of it.



>Sigils are why I gave up learning PERL. Everything I learned had a half life of 10 minutes.

Interesting! By "half life of 10 minutes", do you mean the language was changing too quickly under you or that it was difficult to remember the sigils?


I would look things up, write my code and then if I had to look at it again it was like looking at code I had never seen before.




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