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His famous anti Perl rant circa 2000: (I worked as a Perl dev in 2000) https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/LGeQBt_ClfI/m/Y_iyHKvrdvwJ https://groups.go
by mmaunder 5y ago
His famous anti Perl rant circa 2000: (I worked as a Perl dev in 2000)
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/LGeQBt_ClfI/m/Y_iyHKvrdvwJ https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/LGeQBt_ClfI/m/Y...
- isoprophlex 5y agoThis guy would have had a field day with python, if he were alive right now
- fulafel 5y agoIt had been around for 9 years when that was written, Python 1.5 or 1.6 was then-current.
- isoprophlex 5y agoHehe but the whole "i used to write poor sql for money, now i write even worse pandas code for 50% more money" thing wasn't
- tptacek 5y agoIt's... not very good? The bar for language takedowns is apparently much higher today than in 2000.
- pvg 5y agoIt's weaksauce for 2000, no? Pretty much everything in Unix Haters Handbook (1994) is better than this. In the more usenetty vein, Christiansen's C-shell Considered Harmful is easily much better.
- tptacek 5y agoThere's a lot of filler in it, it's not very pointed, and it's mostly handwavy. You could substitute almost any other language in there and it would read the same. "This is your brain on Perl"? I think "A Fractal of Bad Design" ruined me for these. People call Perl a "write-only language". That's a good takedown! And in just a couple words! I don't get why people have so much reverence for Naggum.