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Exegesis 4 Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the damian-speaks-everyone-listens dept.

BorrisYeltsin writes "perl.com has Exegesis 4 from the Damian, in repsonse to Larry's latest Apocalypse. This installment covers news of the new flow and block control changes, fully integrated exceptions and some other cool stuff!"

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  1. Last line of Damian 4: The Exegeisis... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >>Hmmmmmmm. I know which version I'd rather maintain.

    Would that be the Python version?

  2. Dressing up the succubus.. by ProtonMotiveForce · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Great. Now sysadmins-cum-bad programmers will be even more tempted to use Perl for huge applications and God Knows What because they think it's a 'real' language. Seriously - Perl is greate for most day to day administration tasks, and has been since Perl4. Perl5 added some decent, usable features. Perl6 is a joke.



    Enter the players. Fair succubus Perl cries out to the scraggly, geeky administrator in his cube...

    Perl: Come to me. I'm not a language conducive to horrible, horrible code. I don't tempt system administrators to brute-force huge systems by way of overblown syntax! Really, the shorter and more efficient code makes it _better_ code!



    Administrator: I can hear your call! I love your myriad randomly chosen operators! I love your flexibility, it means me and my colleague will never understand eachothers code! I can even pretend to be a 'real programmer' because I'm dabbling in your poorly designed OO features!



    Perl: And don't forget the job security! Every Perl programmer thinks he can write good manageable Perl code! It's only the other poor slob who can't, and screw him!



    Administrator: Very well. Let us begin writing our financial management systems in perl, our web applications, everything!