in reply to Perlmonks are "old school"?

If you are truly old school, consider it to be a badge of honor. It means you have experience, paid your dues, and established a deep foundation of knowledge that you can continuously build on. As long as you keep learning, those fresh out of school who only know the cutting edge cannot keep up. There is no better teacher than experience, and sooner than you think, today's cutting edge will be old school.

Update: from Wikipedia:

In slang, old school can refer to anything that is from an earlier era and looked upon with high regard or respect, including music, clothing and language.

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Re^2: Perlmonks are "old school"?
by SilasTheMonk (Chaplain) on Aug 13, 2009 at 07:12 UTC
    So when today's cutting edge is "old school", what will today's "old school" be?
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      When Perl 6 is "old school" I imagine Perl 5 would be what Perl 4 is today :-)


      "Everything is true." "Even false things?" "Even false things are true" "How can that be?" "I dunno man, I didn't do it."
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        I am not sure I want to think about perl6. You can call me "old school" and "hard core" all you like, but I just don't get it.
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        use Perl6::Say;
say "Only if you discount CPAN.";

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        No. Perl 6 is a very different language than Perl 5. So Perl 5 and Perl 6 will live side by side. And there wasn't a CPAN in the Perl 4 era.
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