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Good project! I've been tinkering with something similar for pinball, arcade, and other coin-operated machines. Lock-in for hardware and software there is a real bummer, but managi…

Maybe until the 2001 O'Reilly layoffs. Tim hired Larry for about 5 years, but that was mostly working on the third edition of the Camel. A handful of other Perl luminaries worked t…

Excellent point in the last paragraph. Python, JavaScript, Rust, Swift, and C# all have/had business models and business advocates in a way that Perl never did.

This is an embarrassing context to admit, but here goes. Back when Parrot was a thing and the Perl 6 people were targeting it, I profiled the prelude of Perl 6 to optimize startup …

I wrote the book Modern Perl by hand, and it's accurate and freely available. I wonder how much of the linked book relies on what I already wrote: https://www.modernperlbooks.com/b…

I prefer Perl's approach for both: use v5.40; .... That's explicit, tied to a specific version, and executable code which can be scoped to a single source file. (I'd argued for tha…

I'm not aware of any published books yet, but I'd like to publish a 5th edition of Modern Perl sometime, and it will include the native object model.

That's fair; I appreciate it.

If there's more than "good editing often improves writing" I didn't see it in the essay.

Your understanding is mostly accurate. Perl 6 was intended from the start to be the next major release of Perl (at various times, a replacement for a 5.10 or 5.12 or 5.14), and it …

JSON::PP and Cpanel::JSON::XS don't have this problem somehow. From my reading of the documentation of the former (especially the MAPPING section), it has the same problem for the …

It's a language implementation gotcha, not really a library problem. The internal data structure used to represent values is polymorphic and uses flags to represent the types of op…

That's because it didn't work reliably. There were at least a couple of situations where Perl would have had to guess which operation you were trying to perform, so the feature was…

I am. I released a new version of the Modern-Perl library a couple of weeks ago (apropos of this story).

IIRC was by and large advertised as such from the get go It was not. For many years it was advertised as the next version of Perl (with the intent being perhaps a Perl 5.10 release…

someone correct me if I'm wrong but this would apply to well known interpreted languages like Perl 5 Perl uses the same execution method you describe for cPython.

Slashdot and its associated Everything2 site were written in Perl That really takes me back!

AFAICT, O'Reilly's first Ruby book was "Ruby on Rails", published 2006. O'Reilly's "The Ruby Programming Language" wasn't published until 2008. O'Reilly published Matz's Ruby in a …

You're right, that's exactly what I meant! I'm surprised there's no example in perlre(1); perhaps I can get that corrected.

No need to copy and then replace: my $a = 'Perl'; my $b =~ s/pe/ea/ir;

This is untrue.

Rakudo on Parrot was slow. If you happened to use a Unicode character in your source file it got dog-slow. Worse yet, Unicode was an optional feature of Parrot! WTF!! This is nonse…

That means that if you made Parrot work better the way Rakudo-on-NQP-on-Parrot was at the time, it would have been a wasted effort. Two thoughts. First, that wasn't my plan. We wer…

Parrot and Perl 6 diverged To me this reads like the "mistakes were made" phrasing used when someone wants to be technically accurate but not say anything meaningful. Regardless of…

If Parrot had provided all that Perl 6 needed at that time, I don't think the multiple backend strategy would have been selected. Why would one? Given that the multiple backend str…