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> Perl 7 there was a mutiny by jealous and bitter collaborators Look, I hate to harsh on Sawyer X-- he's done a bunch of good stuff for perl over the years, and I hope to see him a…

If you use -E rather than -e you get some new features turned on by default, notably you can use "say" instead of "print".

Since doomacs and spacemacs, the vi folks have discovered org-mode and stopped fighting.

Perl has a fast, powerful well-integrated regular expression engine, with full unicode support. In general, Perl tends to be much faster than the competing scripting languages (whi…

> it falls massively short when it comes to anything concurrent or async Perl has some decent CPAN modules for handling multi-process applications-- it is true that it's very weak …

> no, there's been quite a few. Yes, most of them relatively minor though, which is why the OP has never stumbled across one. (I found one once-- it turned out one coder had invent…

> That butterfly was the worst. Agree completely. Larry Wall is pretty brilliant, but he shouldn't be doing graphics design. Actually, I tend to dislike cutsey-poo cartoon icons, i…

I think quite a few people are confused by the line about it becoming Perl 7 "sometime in the future". I think it is unlikely that that is the distant future, myself. I think the m…

> It should be easy to always stay on the latest language version With perl you can upgrade your language version whenever you like, and do it reasonably safely, because there's a …

> Perl devs would be in a better situation with a "fiasco" like that. Well, the hang-up in the roll out of "Perl 6" (now, Raku) gave people ammunition to shout about how "Perl is d…

> the Editions system lets people keep older syntax in source code Perl 'features' are lexically scoped, and could be applied in a finer-grained style, if you like. Shutting someth…

We're still reading the text of a speech from 1999, which would seem to say something in its favor. Dated pop-culture references in something that's ~25 years old is hardly surpris…

"... but wherever I interfaced with people writing/maintaining Perl code, it was the most hastily thrown together crap" The badly written stuff needs more "maintenance", and the pe…

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Well, Larry Wall's latest project was called "Perl 6" but has been renamed "Raku"-- in belated recognition that it really is a new language, and Perl is going to continue being Per…

Well, there's certainly a deprecation cycle in play, and some things may be on their way out that I would rather see kept around (e.g. they seem to have given up on getting the cas…

"But unfortunately, some Perl devs in recent years keep thinking that what they need to do is break stuff to 'modernize'. They keep eyeing goals like turning `strict` on by default…

https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

Don't know exactly who you mean, but while sawyer x has stepped down recently, the dev team seems to be in good shape-- they've adopted the steering committee idea, and are using a…

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During the crazed bubble 1.0 days, and the word is it got re-written in C++ soon afterwards.

Douglas Crockford, "Javascript: The Good Parts" (2008): "But it turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the s…