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Re: Perl 5.14.2 is now available

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Post by thomas11 »

deepakg wrote: post #4
thomas11 wrote: post #3

I like and use Perl and love seeing Perl news on HN, but do we really need the announcements of minor maintenance releases? Since people are voting it up, there is obviously some interest in it, but I don't get it. Plus, there's not even a changelog at the above link.

From the link above: You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web at: https://metacpan.org/module/FLORA/perl-5.14.2/pod/perldelta....

Thanks for the correction, I missed the "on the web" part.

Re: Perl 5.14.2 is now available

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Post by VMG »

thomas11 wrote: post #3

I like and use Perl and love seeing Perl news on HN, but do we really need the announcements of minor maintenance releases? Since people are voting it up, there is obviously some interest in it, but I don't get it. Plus, there's not even a changelog at the above link.

it may just be an exucse to talk about Perl once in a while.

Re: Perl 5.14.2 is now available

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Post by kokey »

VMG wrote: post #13
thomas11 wrote: post #3

I like and use Perl and love seeing Perl news on HN, but do we really need the announcements of minor maintenance releases? Since people are voting it up, there is obviously some interest in it, but I don't get it. Plus, there's not even a changelog at the above link.

it may just be an exucse to talk about Perl once in a while.

Yup, I think it's that, it's nice for perl users to find each other. Every second job I do seems to involve writing a lot of perl code. The release notes reminds me how much I still don't know about perl.

Re: Perl 5.14.2 is now available

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Post by peteretep »

hartror wrote: post #7

Perl has been completely replaced by Python for me. Perl was the second language I learned in around 1995 after learning Turbo Pascal in my pre-teens. Perl allowed me to learn the programming arts freely, the programs I wrote weren't pretty back then but they ran and performed a function. It let me experiment with CGI, GUIs and writing video games. Thanks Perl. Pity you were so ugly and we had to break up but Python…

People complaining about Perl being ugly is a bit like people complaining that clay is ugly. Yes, you can build tremendously ugly Perl, but you can also build code of breath-taking beauty, combining the best parts of functional programming and OO...

Re: Perl 5.14.2 is now available

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Post by danssig »

peteretep wrote: post #16
hartror wrote: post #7

Perl has been completely replaced by Python for me. Perl was the second language I learned in around 1995 after learning Turbo Pascal in my pre-teens. Perl allowed me to learn the programming arts freely, the programs I wrote weren't pretty back then but they ran and performed a function. It let me experiment with CGI, GUIs and writing video games. Thanks Perl. Pity you were so ugly and we had to break up but Python…

People complaining about Perl being ugly is a bit like people complaining that clay is ugly. Yes, you can build tremendously ugly Perl, but you can also build code of breath-taking beauty, combining the best parts of functional programming and OO...

So, it's a general purpose programming language like a lot of other languages are too? The complaint is obviously that Perl is uglier than it needs to be. You can see this when you compare it to other languages that are just as (if not more) powerful but not as ugly.

Re: Perl 5.14.2 is now available

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Post by hartror »

irahul wrote: post #9
hartror wrote: post #7

Perl has been completely replaced by Python for me. Perl was the second language I learned in around 1995 after learning Turbo Pascal in my pre-teens. Perl allowed me to learn the programming arts freely, the programs I wrote weren't pretty back then but they ran and performed a function. It let me experiment with CGI, GUIs and writing video games. Thanks Perl. Pity you were so ugly and we had to break up but Python…

> Pity you were so ugly > [1] Personal preference I am not looking for a fight :) Your wordings don't align with the disclaimer. That's like saying "you are an idiot, but hey, it's a personal perspective - I am not looking for a fight". FWIW, I have used perl heavily, and now a days mostly do Python and Ruby. My reasons for Python/Ruby are basically Nltk/Flask/Gevent, Rails etc and don't have much to do with the lang…

My words do. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I prefer many things about Python over Perl not just the syntax. I wasn't claiming that I think others are stupid for liking or using it, just my personal preference of what I like in a language.

Perhaps I could have worded it a little less flame bait like:

Pity I didn't like your idioms and we had to break up as my eyes and heart prefer Python.

Any better?

Re: Perl 5.14.2 is now available

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Post by merlincorey »

thomas11 wrote: post #3

I like and use Perl and love seeing Perl news on HN, but do we really need the announcements of minor maintenance releases? Since people are voting it up, there is obviously some interest in it, but I don't get it. Plus, there's not even a changelog at the above link.

I would have been excited to see Perl6!

Re: Perl 5.14.2 is now available

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Post by wazoox »

rednaught wrote: post #8

Any idea on 5.14.0 for Strawberry Perl? Doesn't send a good signal when the Windows version starts to fall behind.

No news. Strangely, it's apparently quite easy to compile 5.14 source with the dmake and compiler coming with strawberry perl 5.12.3, so I don't know what can be the problem.
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