Perl Is Too Complicated

"Perl is too complicated" sed perl -pe grep -P

A SpongeBob meme shows Patrick complaining that Perl is too complicated, while SpongeBob uses increasingly elaborate text-processing alternatives: sed, perl -pe, and grep -P. The joke mocks programmers who avoid learning Perl only to end up using similarly complex command-line tools and regex options. It is sent as a reaction to overcomplicated shell scripting or tool choices.

• @dev_meme / 3029 2021-04-30