Re^2: new perl distribution

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}

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Re^3: new perl distribution by NERDVANA (Priest) on Apr 22, 2025 at 21:20 UTC
The dates aren't in chronological order. I think its AI. This post and the linked page are almost incoherent. I vote to delete.	[reply]
Re^4: new perl distribution by Anonymous Monk on Apr 24, 2025 at 06:03 UTC
AI slop is bad because: it's AI slop. 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...	[reply]
Re^4: new perl distribution by LanX (Saint) on Apr 23, 2025 at 00:49 UTC
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}	[reply]
Re^5: new perl distribution by NERDVANA (Priest) on Apr 23, 2025 at 04:41 UTC
Well the page is almost empty now, so maybe this was written by a real person afterall. I got suspicious and didn't look at the page in a browser, but using 'less' I saw post timestamps that alternated between various times in 2022, 2023, and 2024 in no particular order, so I assumed it had to be AI attempting to generate a blog and having the usual failing at math. I also saw lots of references to "new distribution of ~~perl 5~~ perl 4" (marked up like that) and I can't see why any sane person would care about perl 4 when 5 was better in every way and backward compatible enough to make perl4 scripts an easy upgrade. On the assumption that it was some sort of spam, I was suggesting deleting the post. If this was an honest attempt to connect with the perl community, then I guess I owe paulT an apology.	[reply]
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