I find this obsession with version numbers—which good programmers know are nearly arbitrary—incredibly strange. I think of the years I refused to let them upgrade my box to Vista at work. How today I'd rather be on Server 2000 than X, I mean 10, of course.

Larry has paid–rather indirectly and with lots of help, but still–my immodest salary for years now. That this thread is devolving into offshoots "Fuck Larry for screwing Perl5," really, really sucks.

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So sad...deliberately...rip it apart. His stubborn insistence ..Perl in all its forms is done for. Condemned, by the deliberate and malicious-aforethought, to a slow, inexorable decline Perhaps the saddest thing in life is living to witness the genius of youth become the twisted bitterness of old age.

That this ^^^^ hateful, ignorant, anonymous, pusillanimous wagging has a positive reputation is more of an embarrassment to Perl than a 50 year late "version" bump ever could be.

In reply to Re^4: Find your own monastery: "Perl 6" is not Perl, and Perl is not a Dinosaur by Your Mother
in thread Find your own monastery: "Perl 6" is not Perl, and Perl is not a Dinosaur by 1nickt

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