Love, Internet Style

Re:Love, Internet Style by rcoder on Friday December 12, 2008 @12:47PM (#395860)

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.

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Re:Love, Internet Style by mleonhard on Saturday December 13, 2008 @05:47PM (#397033)

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.

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Re:Love, Internet Style by mst on Saturday December 13, 2008 @10:04PM (#397189)

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.

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Re:Love, Internet Style by jcromartie on Saturday December 13, 2008 @09:32PM (#397175)

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

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