Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

4 of 224 comments (clear)

  1. Where is... by BiggestPOS · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perl6 for IMmortals. Highlander edition. I mean, I think it would take me a few hundred years to really understand Perl, which wouldn't be so bad if I was gonna live forever. :)

    --
    What, me worry?
  2. Re:A good article by smaughster · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I pull all-nighters, then my code already starts to look like the Perl 6 syntaxis some people dread :)

    --
    I intend to live forever, so far so good.
  3. Useless quote of the day by Sapien__ · · Score: 3, Funny
    And, on rereading Damian's example with an eye to what hasn't changed, the whole thing still looks like Perl.

    Yeah, well, duh...

  4. Re:Comment from a real PERL programmer by statusbar · · Score: 3, Funny

    You wrote:

    $/ = undef; $wc{$_}++ for split(/\W+/,); print($_, " = ", $wc{$_}) for sort keys %wc;

    and got rid of 45 lines of java code.

    AWW, MAN! How am I supposed to make any MONEY with perl if I get paid by the number of LINES OF CODE I write???? I have a LOC quota, you know.

    (Just kidding)

    --jeff

    --
    ipv6 is my vpn