It's interesting to see that searching for Perl through Yegge's blog reveals an interesting pattern.
Last time I read some of his comments, way back in 2007, he used to accompany every mention of Perl with a profound exclamation of his dislike of the language. Looks like he doesn't do that these days, and the reason appears to be that the Perl community have, oddly enough, failed to lash at him for his opinions.

As I've done for a great many other programming languages, I've bashed on Perl's technical weaknesses at length in the past. To my continued amazement, the Perl folks are the only ones who never get upset. They just say "Haha, yeah, boy, you're right, it sure is ugly. Heh. Yeah, so, um, anyway, I'm going to get back to work now..." It's awesome. I've gained so much respect for them. It's almost enough to make me go back to programming in Perl.

But as it is, he's a fairly interesting writer, whose scope of articles tend to extend way over the threshold of reader interest (I never managed to finish reading any of his blog posts). And it doesn't look like he "gets" Perl 6.

Stop saying 'script'. Stop saying 'line-noise'.
We have nothing to lose but our metaphors.

In reply to Re: Steve Yegge on how to build IDEs and improve speed of dynamic languages by Erez
in thread Steve Yegge on how to build IDEs and improve speed of dynamic languages by zby

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