Hear! Hear!

Magical and marvelous, Perl something I expect to find tucked away in a corner of Jack Vance's Library At the End of the World (in 'The Dying Earth' and other stories), with lots of forgotten and only partially understood spells just glowing in the dim light.

I have been keeping up in a fashion with the Perl6-ery, and it sounds like a 'best practices' rebuild. Functional, but kinda of soul-less. It will have its own quirks, being Perl, but I am going to miss my '->'....

A couple of years back at a PerlCon someone likened Perl to an old Hippie -- kind of odd and funky, tie-dyed and whimsical, but a hell of a lot of fun to be around. Perl was written as the People's Programming language. Java is an attempt by the Computer Sciences departments to recover the programming mystique and bottle it back up in the Ivory Tower. Perl and Java are "Power to the People" versus "The Religious Hierophonts".

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I Go Back to Sleep, Now.

OGB

In reply to Re: Re: perl's forte by Old_Gray_Bear
in thread perl's forte by kiat

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