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Personally, my dislike for Perl has almost nothing to do with the runtime environment and more to do with the mindset that causes someone to think this is a good idea.

Yeah, all hundreds of them.

The wonders indeed.

Have you actually seen the Perl syntax? It's a horrifying mess designed for people who like twisted grammar puzzles and cryptic codes (and cyptics like RMS who think that recursive acronyms are cool). To express anything clearly in Perl requires a frontal lobotomy and a C-section at the same time (yeah, even if you're male).

It's such a freakish language that it's got syntax for syntax rather than a very clear simple syntactic idea like LISP or Smalltalk or Self or, fuck, even C is easier to comprehend than Perl.

There's an article over here that covers some points why Perl sucks the big one and doesn't even suck well at it! When a language sucks at least I want a good blow job!
http://smalltalk.org/articles/article_20040914_a1.html

Basically Perl sucks because you need this to figure it out:
http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.pdf

Professional systems people want their systems to be clear and as easy to grasp as possible, Perl provides the opposite. We ONLY use it when the existing system is using it, and then we only do maintenance bug fixes (lots of those) and do not under any circumstances add new features to programs written in it!

The above are a few reasons that Perl is ostracized from the corporate space and should be excised from your brain.

If you want to hack your way through life, fine, be cryptic and use Perl. If you want excellent systems that perform and get results use a language that helps in that regard: Smalltalk, Lisp, C. Avoid Java, C++. Heck use Assembly Language before Perl!

Before your Perl operator table overlord: http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicT able.html

result = x.add(y.multiply(BigInteger.valueOf(7)));

result = x + (y * 7);

Don't forget the Perl Periodic Table of the Operators at http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicT able.pdf

I'm not the original poster, but here you go:

• Perl Puzzles
• Perl Periodic Table of Operators

Mike

The current organization of the periodic table is almost burned into my brain. Six years after touching my last chemistry text book, I can still remember that Zinc is too close to the non-metals and that there's a huge fuss about what the names of those artificial elements that they started naming it Unun to avoid controversy.

overcome the switching costs of giving up Perl5, for that community

draw fresh mindshare towards TMTOWTDI, and way from the Pythonic TIORWTDI

convince people that a language whose operator chart could be confused with the periodic table of elements is a Good Thing.
A development effort led by anyone less than Larry would surely be a trip to the Wailing Wall. :)

Hmmm...make sure you don't make spelling mistakes in that languaje of your new kernel.

Guess Mark wants to resolve a host name. Here is a working link:

http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicT able.html

I'm studing seriously the posibility of tackling a whorty coding proyect, the rewriting of the entire LINUX kernel on a languaje very much but not unlike C and was considering doing it in C-INTERCAL but after seing things like this http://ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable .html , I changed my mind and will use PERL 6 instead.

The Periodic Table of the Perl 6 Operators sheds light on just how scary Perl 6 will be.

Hey, I think it's fun, nice and usefull :)

The Periodic Table of the Perl 6 Operators sheds light on just how scary Perl 6 will be. Don't forget: Perl is "easy" to learn!

Dupe!

Of course, you can find it dude, it's right here or here.

<a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/Per iodicTable.pdf">Here's the PDF</a>

Interestingly enough, "</perl>" is valid Perl. You would have to find another delimiter. Good luck.