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There's nothing wrong with taking 10 years to create something new. Since they began, I've taken serious ganders into java and ruby. Now that I'm back in the pe

There's nothing wrong with taking 10 years to create something new. Since they began, I've taken serious ganders into java and ruby. Now that I'm back in the perl camp I find that I know a lot more about programming in other cultures. And now that the community is just about done, I can apply what I've learned using a "language" unprecedented in flexibility and capability.

masak 16y ago
One post like yours, sir, makes it worth trawling through a hundred posts by churlish detractors. Thank you.
sreque 16y ago
Puts on Perl troll hat You must not have learned too much, or else you'd have no reason to go back! :)
loewenskind 16y ago
> I can apply what I've learned using a "language" unprecedented in flexibility and capability. This right here is what I've always hated about the perl community. It's so rare to find a perl user who can mention the language without spouting these kind of exaggerations and untruths. Of course you could always prove me wrong by demonstrated how perl is "flexible" and "capable" in a manner that is unprecedented [1]. [1] un·prec·e·dent·ed adjective without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.
- chromatic 16y ago
  Do you know of another language community with a library or extension system which rivals the CPAN, for one example? How about the existence of PCRE for another? Along those lines, have you seen Perl 6 grammars?
  - loewenskind 16y ago
    The post I responded to said "language" so your comment about CPAN doesn't apply. On the second part, I did misread the OP as meaning he would return to perl 5 (probably a false mental cache hit, since this is usually the context of such comments). Perl 6 does indeed have a few interesting bits.
    - chromatic 16y ago
      The post I responded to said "language" so your comment about CPAN doesn't apply. Somehow Perl 5 made CPAN possible (and by deliberate language design), so that guy in a kilt seems truly a Scotsman to me.
      - loewenskind 16y ago
        Confusing response. If you want to get down to it, CPAN doesn't really provide much more functionality than what you can get in most other languages and provides less than what Java has. CPAN has a tremendous amount of duplication, has a fair amount of toy code, etc., etc.

masak 16y ago

One post like yours, sir, makes it worth trawling through a hundred posts by churlish detractors. Thank you.

sreque 16y ago

Puts on Perl troll hat You must not have learned too much, or else you'd have no reason to go back! :)

loewenskind 16y ago

> I can apply what I've learned using a "language" unprecedented in flexibility and capability. This right here is what I've always hated about the perl community. It's so rare to find a perl user who can mention the language without spouting these kind of exaggerations and untruths. Of course you could always prove me wrong by demonstrated how perl is "flexible" and "capable" in a manner that is unprecedented [1]. [1] un·prec·e·dent·ed adjective without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled: an unprecedented event.

chromatic 16y ago
Do you know of another language community with a library or extension system which rivals the CPAN, for one example? How about the existence of PCRE for another? Along those lines, have you seen Perl 6 grammars?
- loewenskind 16y ago
  The post I responded to said "language" so your comment about CPAN doesn't apply. On the second part, I did misread the OP as meaning he would return to perl 5 (probably a false mental cache hit, since this is usually the context of such comments). Perl 6 does indeed have a few interesting bits.
  - chromatic 16y ago
    The post I responded to said "language" so your comment about CPAN doesn't apply. Somehow Perl 5 made CPAN possible (and by deliberate language design), so that guy in a kilt seems truly a Scotsman to me.
    - loewenskind 16y ago
      Confusing response. If you want to get down to it, CPAN doesn't really provide much more functionality than what you can get in most other languages and provides less than what Java has. CPAN has a tremendous amount of duplication, has a fair amount of toy code, etc., etc.