Predictions for 2005: "Larry Wall Gives Up On Perl"

Here's a list of predictions for 2005, in which Larry Wall plays a pretty dominant role. All in good fun, of course. Like the guy says himself: "This is, after all, more fun than real work.".

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Re: Predictions for 2005: "Larry Wall Gives Up On Perl" by TimToady (Parson) on Jan 07, 2005 at 00:49 UTC
The Perl is dead! Long live the Perl! `:-)`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Predictions for 2005: "Larry Wall Gives Up On Perl" by mowgli (Friar) on Jan 07, 2005 at 13:55 UTC
Why anyone would choose to abandon Perl for python is beyond me, honestly. :) -- mowgli	[reply]
Re^2: Predictions for 2005: "Larry Wall Gives Up On Perl" by wolfger (Deacon) on Jan 07, 2005 at 14:09 UTC
Obviously it's not the real Larry Wall. It's probably an AI hacked together by some Python guys and put into a body resembling Larry's. -- Linux, sci-fi, and Nat Torkington, all at Penguicon 3.0 perl -e 'print(map(chr,(0x4a,0x41,0x50,0x48,0xa)))'	[reply] [d/l]