This last few weeks I've been thinking about making perl5 lispier and actually came up with something saner than anything else that I think came before it (fake out B::Deparse with Test::MockObjects and eval the result).

Yes. That's exactly what we need. All the crypic confusion of Perl 5 combined with all the cryptic features of LISP. While you're at it, why don't you add in Intercal or Brainfuck, just for kicks?

That you think perl5 should be static isn't my concern. I don't care. I'm working on my neighborhood improvement project and that happens to be multilingual.

By which you mean: "I'm having fun, so I don't care what kind of business productivity I ruin".

Just because you prefer to be in a single language neighborhood isn't going to make me stop working on things I think are fun and interesting

Great. So, in the name of "fun", and "interesting", you're going to ruin a productivity tool that people depend on to get real world work done. Thanks for nothing. When I code, it's to get work done; 'cause, you see, I'm not out to screw people over.

Cuz, see, I am coding perl.

The "P" in Perl stands for "practical", not "fun", nor "interesting", nor "pointless". Whatever abomination you're planning, it's NOT Perl.

Now go away with your "please go away" statements.

Did you really think I was going to sit here in silence while you ruin Perl? How stupid do you think I am? I can't stop you, but I can stop other people from being fooled by you, and I can at least **try** to prevent yet another paradigm from getting shoehorned, badly, into the Perl 5 sphere.

Is there a conspiracy to prevent Perl 5 from being made simple and robust? What's wrong with finishing the Perl 5 compiler? Ten years ago, there was "undump()", then there was "perlcc", and now both are abandoned. What's wrong with making the B series of modules non-alphaware? What's wrong with making perltidy actually robust enought that we know that nothing has changed. Where's the pressing need to add more functional toys (and the acompanied instability that more features always bring) to the language, instead of solving all the pressing, real world problems that Perl faces?

In reply to Re^11: No, "We" Don't Have to Do Anything by Anonymous Monk
in thread No, "We" Don't Have to Do Anything by chromatic

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