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Perl6 for Mortals

Posted by michael on from the laziness-impatience-and-hubris dept.

horos1 writes: "Hey all, I just ran across an article over at O'Reilly - Perl 6: Not Just For Damians which covers a lot of the negative commentary posted by slashdot on perl6 'featureitis'. Very interesting read, and IMO makes a hell of a lot of sense."

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  1. Is it really. by quartz · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If you don't like a particular feature of the language don't use it.

    Oh yeah? I don't like Perl6's object-orientedness. Could you be so kind as to tell me how can I turn that off? Yeah, I thought so.

    Look, all this "change is great no matter what's changing and INTO what" is bullshit. Perl used to be a great language for admin stuff, CGI and glue code. Now can you please tell me why the fsck do I need a full-fledged object-oriented language to write scripts for cron jobs and CGI? Have *you* ever tried to write CGI in a fully object-oriented language? Why don't you go ahead and do that before you start accusing people of resistence to change?

    Bah. From what I could make of Larry's "Apocalypse", perl6 is going to be the next fsckin' Java. Bloated, slow and useless.

  2. Re:Perl 6 is the way forward. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Why is it that people dislike change (read: progress) so much ? Its not like anyone ever said 'perl is perfect - leave it just the way it is'. So why all the sad faces when Larry tries to improve on what is already a great language ?

    Because the people who like progress are already programming with better languages than Perl; the Perl users are the old guard (or the initiates).