Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by __jal on Friday October 11, 2019 @04:21PM
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You pretty clearly have very little familiarity with "Perl culture" and even less with Perl6/Raku.
Perl 5 is in decline, no doubt. But it isn't because whomever you're visualizing when you wrote the above is an annoying nerd. People can and do disagree on the 'why'; I personally think it is the general decline of Unix-style syntax combined with the natural ebb and flow of language evolution.
If "what you've seen" is watching the compiler developers work through language design, the origin of your misconception at least makes a little sense, even if that's obviously a weird, unfair basis.
By all means, hate on perlmonks.org if you like. Just don't spread insulting nonsense.
Re:Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
by xisukar on Friday October 11, 2019 @06:15PM
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It's unfortunate but that's the bread-and-butter of comment sections mentioning Perl (Perl 5 and Perl 6). And what's with "the most obsessive"? What's this supposed to imply?
Perl 5 is in decline, no doubt. But it isn't because whomever you're visualizing when you wrote the above is an annoying nerd. People can and do disagree on the 'why'; I personally think it is the general decline of Unix-style syntax combined with the natural ebb and flow of language evolution.
If "what you've seen" is watching the compiler developers work through language design, the origin of your misconception at least makes a little sense, even if that's obviously a weird, unfair basis.
By all means, hate on perlmonks.org if you like. Just don't spread insulting nonsense.