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This article is actually quite revealing. The modern Perl movement clearly passed this guy by; this is clear from several statements in the article, beginning w
by jonathansizz 16y ago
This article is actually quite revealing. The modern Perl movement clearly passed this guy by; this is clear from several statements in the article, beginning with his second sentence. Perl is just seen as it was ten years ago.
So the challenge for those of us who like Perl and would like to see better coding practices in the language is to spread the modern Perl word beyond the confines of the Perl echo chamber.
This clearly isn't happening yet: instead Perl is seen as an ancient language only good for knocking up a quick script in an emergency.
Oh, and loewenskind: if you had read the article, you'd see it's far from 'blatant fanboy nonsense'. At best it is a mean and backhanded compliment.
- loewenskind 16y agoI didn't mean what he said was, I meant posting it here was. It's 5 paragraphs about some guy scripting. Who cares? Are we going to start posting Yahoo answers about perl next? How about IRC logs?
- jonathansizz 16y agoI agree with you on that point.
- Kaizyn 16y agoYou know, the Perl community could just release Perl 6 finally so they had the "shiny new language" to point to whenever someone talks about the old days of Perl.
- chromatic 16y agoHow many releases of Perl 6 do you want to see?
- donaldc 16y agoI can't speak for the grandparent of this comment, but I'd like to see a Perl 6 release that is actually competitive with perl5 and python in a production setting. Last I heard, the Perl 6 implementations were still very slow, and lacking significant functionality specified in the Synopses. Until such a release happens, Perl 6 is a nice idea, but not actually useful to me.
- chromatic 16y agoI understand, and I likewise look forward to much improved performance.
- jonathansizz 16y agoAnd I'd like to see 1] Larry et al. publish the first edition of 'Programming Perl 6' and 2] something analogous to the CPAN for Perl 6. Then I'll jump right in!
- iloveponies 16y agoPerl 5 and Perl 6 are two different languages, and an implementation of Perl 6 is out already.
- mst 16y agoThe latest version of perl is revision 5 version 12. The 12 is the major version number. There is also a separate language called perl6 that we steal ideas from. But while the perl and perl6 communities share a fair few members, they aren't really the same community. If you find this confusing, I suggest you do what myself - and a number of the Rakudo Perl6 developers - are finding ourselves doing, and referring to the perl6 spec as "Camelia" instead to reduce the number of people confusing it with perl.
- chromatic 16y agoZero is a number, but you confuse people that way.