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These ranters never actually show you any perl code that is particularly ugly and compare it against some lisp/python/ruby code that solves the problem more cle
by lupin_sansei 19y ago
These ranters never actually show you any perl code that is particularly ugly and compare it against some lisp/python/ruby code that solves the problem more cleanly.
I'm sure that there are areas where other languages' solutions are much cleaner than an equivalent perl one, but can anybody actually show us one? Especially a lisp one.
- SwellJoe 19y agopg wrote a few in an essay. (And, unremarkably, though I'm going to remark on it anyway, Perl stands up as well as any other mainstream language to the onslaught. Perl 6 does even better, though I think one of the biggest side effects of Perl 6 is going to be a huge influx of Haskell coders because of Pugs.)
- edu 19y agoAnd when will be Perl 6 ready?
- lupin_sansei 19y agoThe day before Arc comes out.
- edu 19y agoHeh, that's a good one :D
- SwellJoe 19y agoPossibly by Christmas. Many of us are already using it with Pugs.
- lupin_sansei 19y agoWow not a single example!