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I think the question still deserves a proper answer.

This is indeed not at all about his code. I don't care what he thinks of vaccines and COVID - I just as much don't care what Linus Torvalds thinks about these things. They are damn…

I got permanently banned from the Raku community rather silently. What happened, what is the common history, and honestly, what is the path forward for those who stay. This post is…

It's a bit ironic that now we went down the static rabbit hole so much that we don't realize it's more the opposite: by adding more to your language and compiler to enforce static …

I wonder where you got that impression from. For me as well, it's rather the overboard lecturing response that seemed like an invocation of "Trevors axiom". By the way, what even d…

Some diversity doesn't hurt, though. On my keyboard, it's actually easier to type than the backslash for starters.

Maybe a fast way but is it a fair or even helpful way, if you recognize that it "quickly became a bad name for the project"?

So following your logic, "some of the worst" includes the vast majority of actually used languages and tools. Must be cool to be on the special side. :)

Taking a look at the bigger picture, it does indeed seem like the Perl philosophy lost to the Python philosophy overall. Looking at the hip n cool languages, not just Python for sc…

The problem isn't whether the conclusions you draw are favorable or not, it's that they are not legitimate. It's getting tiresome that I have to repeat it: I'm not at all arguing e…

> Lists are given to the reader in angle brackets and printed in parentheses, or at least that's how it looks. I suppose the other possibility is that these are actually different …

> The apparent variance between list syntax accepted by the reader and emitted by the printer Could you provide an actual example for this? I suspect this is a simple misunderstand…

It would be invaluable feedback if you could point out what you find so bizarre? I mean, the "let's define some ad-hoc postcircumfix operator" is a weird flex for sure but otherwis…

I don't know, this is "second-hand intel" for me, pretty sure I read it in a very old article from someone of the likes of Carl Mäsak, Moritz Lenz or another early-day Rakudo contr…

Jonathan Worthington has been much going on and off in the recent years. He still had one big optimization project that got completed in 2021 - the new dispatch mechanism - but I d…

From what I heard, it half inspired Moose actually.

Have to agree with this one, and also, there is something that I think is easy to forget until you actually face code that has been worked on by dozens of people of completely rand…

Yes, and those claims might have even been real (also, Perl still lags behind on Unicode stuff, or so I heard?)... the thing we like much less to talk about is that there just need…

I guess that all depends on what you consider bizarre parts. You of all people must have your own weird reason to say this out of the blue, though.

The difficulty of reading Perl is probably overclaimed and overrepresented. Let's not forget that we are comparing a pretty darn low-level language to a fairly high-level one. And …

You probably know it well but let me elaborate a bit more "for the sake of the audience": - the left handside is evaluated into a value (let's symbolize this value with $lhs) - thi…

Oh yes, Bruce Gray was a major influence for me as well a couple of years ago. He often participates in the "Raku Study Group" meetings as well - these are very broad and informal …

Well I'm saying that "you just didn't bother to learn it, duh" is not an equally valid argument for different languages; it's much less valid for Perl than it would be for Python. …

Just imagine writing bash incorporating a sed script for something you can do with 20 keystrokes, then migrating the sed part to awk until it reaches 20 lines, then rewrite the who…