I quickly read the url you gave. This chap has a good opinion of his opinion. And an almost(?) pathological hatred of Perl.
At the same time he gives a good list of reference books on Perl, although his reviews were sometimes vitrolic. Xah Lee must be quite an unusual individual. I admire his reverence of his own ability.
xenchu
The Needs of the World and my Talents run parallel to infinity.
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Heh. I'm glad Mr. Xah Lee is such an "expert" on these things and is so kind to enlighten us to how much Perl apparently sucks.
I love it! "Don't use Perl because ... uh Larry is a troll and ... it was written by morons and ... oh yeah Python is better!" hehehe, thanks for the laugh!
Lobster Aliens Are attacking the world!
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The three characteristics of Xah Lee: antagonism, humorlessness, and bitterness - Art_XIV, 2004
I'll bet that he liked a woman who used Perl on *nix and that she refused to go out with him.
Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
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Xah Lee, you just go ahead with your ravings. I'll be over here getting real work done.
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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
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According to my business and english teachers the way this is written, use of insults and grammer, would easily earn an F. Thanks for the nice perl related example, that ended up helping me in two classes. :)
"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." Ambrose Bierce
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But he still admits he knows perl - intersting, but in the past <don ="clothing" type=" flame-proof,protective">I did find myself wondering about the similarity of Programming Perl to the pods</don>. Granted you can't take the pods to the toilet with you.
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