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Apocalypse 5 Released
Simon Cozens writes "The Apocalypses are Larry Wall's explanation of the design of Perl 6. In Apocalypse 5, Larry turns to redesigning regular expressions. He set out to intentionally 'break' a lot of the regular expression culture we're all used to, and these are the results - and they're mindblowing."
Well, for those of us who actually like the way Perl 5 does its thing, we can always stick to our old gnat covered camel carcass.
On a completely different note, people have often commented that I look identical to Simon Cozens. I dunno, though. They're basing it off of his picture on the Wrox book.
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He set out to intentionally 'break' a lot of the regular expression culture we're all used to
I hope he can break "Don't go there" and "Talk to the hand" There are many others, but this would be a good start
---"What did I say that sounded like 'Tell me about your day?'"---
So, when Perl 6.final is released, will the release notes be called "Apocalypse.Now"?
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Something to make the code that little bit more unmaintainable. That keep those PHP whores on their toes :->
...is if Cmdr Taco is going to upgrade slashcode to Perl 6 and what he thinks of all this re-write of Perl.
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...that the active half of this Perl (5) powered site is completely screwed up at the moment? Improve languages all you want, it's still no substitute for decent sysadminning ;)
However, I would like to think that there is some happy medium between those two extremes. Coming from a C background, Perl has historically treated regexes as servants. True, Perl has treated them as trusted servants, letting them move about in Perl society better than any other C-like language to date. Nevertheless, if we emancipate regexes to serve as co-equal control structures, and if we can rid ourselves of the regexist attitudes that many of us secretly harbor, we'll have a much more productive society than we currently do. We need to empower regexes with a sense of control (structure). It needs to be just as easy for a regex to call Perl code as it is for Perl code to call a regex.
We've been discriminating against the poor regexes for too long. We need to represent them who are unable to represent themselves. Stop Regex Exploitation Now!
So Perl 7 will be the last major revision. In fact, Perl 7 will be so perfect, it will need no revision at all. Perl 6 is merely the prototype for Perl 7. :-)
If you ask Wall, he says that it looks like garbage because it's more "natural," and in alignment with "how we think." If perl is the most efficient way to express the way Wall thinks- be afraid. Be very afraid. :)
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