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I'll probably be trouted by a Perl monk for saying it, but sometimes less is more.

• Diederich 11y ago
  Ha, what happens when one is 'trouted'?? It's been a number of years, and I can't check right now, but I believe that the amount of code in Perl6 is actually less than in Perl5. The amazing power that is Perl6 naturally falls out of a whole lot of experience and fantastic design decisions. Not to mention several great implementations. I'm a big fan of 'less is more' as well. In this case, you're literally correct: Perl6 delivers a LOT MORE than Perl5 even though there's 'less to it'!
  • gknoy 11y ago
    I expect it's based on the /slap emote in IRC. Wikipedia [0] has a page on it, from which I swipe the follwing: `When someone does something inadvisable that they had the experience and intelligence to avoid, you may likely see the suggestion that they be "trouted"` Trout slapping originated in 1995 with internet relay chat (IRC). While in an IRC chat room, the IRC client mIRC would allow users to enter the command: /slap Sam - Steve slaps Sam around a bit with a large trout 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Whacking_with_a_wet_trout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Whacking_with_a_wet_...
    • dasil003 11y ago
      Wow, that's a blast from the past. Did it really originate in mIRC? Somehow I feel like it predated that, but maybe just because I didn't run Windows.
      • kbenson 11y ago
        It sounded Monty Python-ish to me, and it looks plausible[1]. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsfiD78Cy0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsfiD78Cy0s
      • amyjess 11y ago
        I first encountered it in the mid-to-late '90s, and it was definitely considered an IRCism back then (in that IRC was the only place you saw trouting), but I had no idea it originated as an mIRC builtin.
• kamaal 11y ago
  Depends on the problem on hand. You can't really replace lifts with thousands of ladders, when you are building a sky scraper.