You got that "even" correctly in terms of language, and I don't dispute that - yes it is about comparason. But you didn't get it correctly in this context - in terms of logic.

You thought that "even" came into the picture when he was comparing perl against some other languages, but I take it that he was comparing this new version of perl against previous versions. The author never specified that, although I knew where he was heading.

Then what he meant was that this new version sucks, although sucks less than previous versions.

By the way, someone said in private that this is troll against troll. Now does this not mean that whoever said that took Evan's original post as troll - which means quite a few suspected that he was talking against perl? You know where this is leading to, right?

In reply to Re^3: Trying to make perl suck less again by Cop
in thread Trying to make perl suck less again by EvanCarroll

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