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I was shocked by that too, but you are absolutely right. One of my favorite modules in that spirit was Damian Conway's Lingua::Romana::Perligata which made it
by bobochan 17y ago
I was shocked by that too, but you are absolutely right. One of my favorite modules in that spirit was Damian Conway's Lingua::Romana::Perligata which made it possible to "write Perl programs in Latin." Just reading the documentation was like absorbing a burst of pure geek energy. I immediately spent a week playing with it.
- tapostrophemo 17y agoAcme::Magpie
- berntb 17y agoConway scares me. It feels like Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos when he starts a keynote, you expect to hear things programmers weren't supposed to understand and go insane. I'd still pay good money for a DVD with Conway's collected talks. (You have to take some risks in life.)
- SwellJoe 17y agoMy co-founder had Conway as a professor at Monash University many years ago. This fact might explain a few things.