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On 29 Apr 2016, at 16:05 , Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote: While I know exactly what folks mean, I will attempt a weak defense. Perl has extremely strong string manipulation features, including strong (and easy) support for PCRE's. Those regex's are the main reason folks recoil (because of how often they appear inline in Perl code). Also, if you ask me, most folks beginning to code in a scripting language will produce some nasty code. Since Perl attracted a large number of beginners, you'd often run into line noise style code. However, just to play the devils advocate, Perl can often pack a tremendous amount of logic and functionality in those regex strings. It's often stuff that'd take dozens of lines of C for me to reproduce.