"Wouter Verhelst"  wrote

| >  Well, except maybe Perl. That's just too ugly to be
| > allowed to survive. :)
|
| Perl allows line-noise code, but then so does C.
|
| Honestly, it's perfectly possible to write readable Perl code that is
| easily maintained.
|
| Like with anything, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

   Yes. I was just teasing. It seems to me that different
languages suit different personalities. In general it seems
that the more math-oriented people like terser languages.
But that's just my observation. I don't have any evidence.

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