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Perl rant by Erik Naggum
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- dmethvin 14y agoI don't use Perl much anymore, but I never had a problem with it when I did. Stop complaining and write some code.
- SimHacker 14y agoHe can't write any more code, because he's dead. But at least he spent his time wisely writing Lisp code instead of Perl.
- batista 14y agoHa, if Erik was still among us, he would be downvoted to death in HN. RIP.
- secure 14y agoNot to be taken seriously anymore: Date: 2000/03/28 Tons of stuff changed.
- platzhirsch 14y agoWhy is this not relevant anymore?
- chromatic 14y agoPerl 5 has completely supplanted Perl 4 by now.
- SimHacker 14y agoAnd Perl 6 is still completely unusable. Proves his point, ehe?
- mxey 14y agoPerl 6 is a different language. Perl 5 is in active development with yearly releases.
- SimHacker 14y agoPerl 6 is as horrible a mistake as Perl 5 was. It's just taken a decade and it's still unusable. Parrot was a fucking joke. Not figuratively but literally. Unfortunately people without enough perspective took it at face value. And here we are 10 years later.
- zacharyvoase 14y agoThe road to The Right Way is paved with anxiety, and the road to Worse is Better isn't paved at all.
- aristidb 14y agoI wish it would actually contained any concrete reasons. That might be highly interesting.
- rsanchez1 14y agoDo other languages handle RegExp better? Most newer ones just adopt perl-style RegExp, but the concept is not original to perl. I found it interesting that he singled out RegExp (how to tell if you have a false positive).