in reply to new perl distribution

Typical example of AI slop

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Re^2: new perl distribution
by LanX (Saint) on Apr 22, 2025 at 21:15 UTC
    Not sure if it's Artificial or Biological Ignorance, but the linked page starts with the claim that Perl5 is soon reaching end of life, because it'll be replaced by Perl6 on all UNIX distributions. (WTF)

    If this is a working attempt of SEO of this dubious page, we should consider censoring the link the same way we censor other spam or trolling.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      The dates aren't in chronological order. I think its AI. This post and the linked page are almost incoherent. I vote to delete.
        AI slop is bad because:
        1. it's AI slop.
        2. it gives people yet another reason to dismiss anything they see online as fake, instead of considering there might be a human behind it. Empathy can be hard...
        I'm not sure which dates you are referring to, but I don't think you need AI to produce such an incoherent web page.

        There is a connected github repo with projects dating back for years and the name in the sources are matching Paul T.*

        Wayback has copies of the homepage dating back till 2003.

        The "Perl5 approaching EOL"-page was first captured 24 Jan 2022.

        So what do you want to delete?

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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