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Re: Love, Internet Style

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Post by mleonhard »

rcoder wrote: post #25

The most salient point, to my mind, was this line: "they didn't care that they saw it work in practice, since they already knew it couldn't work in theory." That, and "Perl is a Shinto shrine." Larry Wall himself could hardly spin a better catchphrase.

Is Perl like the shrine in that it doesn't change or improve? I think programming language technology has improved but Perl has yet to catch up. Nowadays one can be much more productive in other languages.

Re: Love, Internet Style

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Post by mmmurf »

wynand wrote: post #39

I was really inspired after the video and decided to go help out in some IRC channels and mailing lists. And then I was reminded why I stopped doing that a long time ago: there is so much snarkiness. None of these lists or IRC channels ever seem to take a stance against this behaviour and it seems to me as if there are often self-selecting groups of snarky "locals" who drive a list or IRC channel. On the contrary, I…

I agree. I can never really get into IRC as there are always three condescending comments to every helpful one and it's like a high school clique with password protected rooms and inside jokes.

I also agree about HN, it seems to have managed to avoid a lot of that.

Re: Love, Internet Style

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Post by jcromartie »

rcoder wrote: post #25

The most salient point, to my mind, was this line: "they didn't care that they saw it work in practice, since they already knew it couldn't work in theory." That, and "Perl is a Shinto shrine." Larry Wall himself could hardly spin a better catchphrase.

Larry Wall might say "Perl is a house-church".

Re: Love, Internet Style

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Post by mst »

mleonhard wrote: post #41
rcoder wrote: post #25

The most salient point, to my mind, was this line: "they didn't care that they saw it work in practice, since they already knew it couldn't work in theory." That, and "Perl is a Shinto shrine." Larry Wall himself could hardly spin a better catchphrase.

Is Perl like the shrine in that it doesn't change or improve? I think programming language technology has improved but Perl has yet to catch up. Nowadays one can be much more productive in other languages.

Really? I think you need to look at

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?MooseX::Declare

- perl5 the core language is flexible enough that you can extend the language up towards the problem from perl-space pretty well. It's one of the things I learned to love in lisp.

Re: Love, Internet Style

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