- What is an expressive language?
- What does it mean when someone says that Perl is an expressive language?
What is an expressive language? What does it mean when someone says that Perl
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An “expressive” language is a language that allows you to easily express logical concepts in code.
People often call Perl expressive since it allows you to use many different approaches to express a specific concept, so it’s very flexible in this regard.
(There is a lot of debate about whether this is a good thing or not, though…)