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A comment on Damian Conway on Perl and its future. Parent comment
This is what Conway is claimed to be influencing:
>>- Actual use by mortal programmers is boring; satisfying your desire to be brilliant and clever is what matters [etc]
Go check who wrote "Perl Best Practices". Better yet, read the book.
(And please don't try arguing "REAL influence", or something...)
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This is what Conway is claimed to be influencing:
>>- Actual use by mortal programmers is boring; satisfying your desire to be brilliant and clever is what matters [etc]
Go check who wrote "Perl Best Practices". Better yet, read the book.
(And please don't try arguing "REAL influence", or something...)