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First off, "Wanklage" is a good pun. But as someone who has made a decent living the last few years writing new Perl code, I'd have to disagree that it is dead
by __david__ 17y ago
First off, "Wanklage" is a good pun.
But as someone who has made a decent living the last few years writing new Perl code, I'd have to disagree that it is dead, or that it somehow "only as" practical as Haskell. And while I shouldn't care what others think of something that works perfectly well for my (and my customers') needs, it kind of irks me to hear unkind words from the peanut gallery. No matter, I'll continue writing in a language that lets me express myself as I wish, and they can go back to hurling stones instead of actually doing anything.
- ajross 17y agoThe wanklage comment was specifically about Perl 6. If you're working professionally with perl, it's quite clearly with perl 5, which is as practically-focused a language as there is. Perl 5 is perhaps the archetype (maybe shared with C) for a non-wanklage; it's never appealed to language geeks at all.
- jrockway 17y agoI don't get it, though; Haskell appeals to the language geeks, and it's obviously used in industry. I use it in industry, anyway... Meaningless terms are meaningless. This post is just someone wanting to bash Perl. The author came up with a clever term, and got himself lots of exposure.