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Great, just what Perl needs: more FUD about Perl. /sarcasm There are different measures of greatness. Using exclusively the most modern Perl idioms is one meas
by natch 16y ago
Great, just what Perl needs: more FUD about Perl. /sarcasm
There are different measures of greatness. Using exclusively the most modern Perl idioms is one measure. Another measure is getting shit done. Another is writing code that can be read by the average Perl programmer.
IMHO the second two of those are way more important than the first one [edit: note I did not claim that any of them are mutually exclusive]. The author of the blog post is pushing a good agenda (promoting modern Perl) but doing so with tactics that end up adding more harmful FUD to Perl's already shaky reputation.
- chromatic 16y agoThe author of the blog post is pushing a good agenda (promoting modern Perl) but doing so with tactics that end up adding more harmful FUD to Perl's already shaky reputation. How so? If Perl can't survive the honest admission that a lot of people writing Perl aren't great programmers, that the design of the language encourages people to be able to write baby Perl and still get their work done, and that the existing core Perl community needs to find these people and encourage them to improve their skills, then Perl doesn't deserve to survive.