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And according to Larry, Perl 6 will be along any day now. And then all you skeptics will be sorry! Sorry I say! Bwahahaha!

• InclinedPlane 12y ago
  Hah. Well, Perl isn't a bad language, it's just past its prime and being outcompeted by other languages. It had a moment where it could have remained relevant but they missed it.
  • BugBrother 12y ago
    Sigh, here we go again. :-( Better OO than the competing scripting languages, CPAN still beats any opposition (check CPAN testers), extensible syntax(!) etc. And... you don't lose a hype war if you didn't really play it.
    • acuozzo 12y ago
      All you need is the following if you want to champion Perl. http://dheeb.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gbu.pdf http://dheeb.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gbu.pdf Perl does Unicode right. Look at page #3.
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      • BugBrother 12y ago
        I'd settle for new subjects from the trolls, the present ones make tired reddit jokes look good. Anyway, I thought Guido told 'em to stop, since they're getting a bad reputation?