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."

Comments

Re:Perl's had it's day - It's become like COBOL

[ajm]

Troll???? That's a bit unfair. It's the only post with the beginnings of any thought or discussion so far. As sensible thought as well. People need to rethink there automatic "I'll use perl for this" bias.

Re:!!!GO USA!!!

[Numen]

But hey! They can deploy a team against other teams picked from countries the size of one of their States.

Field Texas, or Califonia, or whoever as a single state in the World Cup and then lets see how you stack up.

You think if the EU fielded a consolodated team you'd stand even the remotest chance of a look-in?

Bully-boy mentality pure and simple.

Do you never stop to consider the size of the countries you're competeing against when they beat you in international competition? Doesn't that cause you even the slightest shame?

Re:Most languages stick around through inertia

[ajm]

The meta point is to discuss the issues. Sure you may think it was a troll but it wasn't and at least people are taking about perl, what it's good for, what it's not good for and why it's still used. When I originally posted everything else at 2 or above was rated "Funny". I was hoping for a bit more thought and discussion than that so I posted something that I hoped would get people thinking. Apparently though a position that doesn't fit in or is not expressed in a bland way currently gets rated as troll or flamebait. The initial post has now got 10 moderations (some just seem to be slashdot groupthink but that's to be expected) so it seems to be generating some interest.

Re:Many /. moderators suck

[ajm]

I won't though :) Just had to agree. Moderation can be weird. I'd love to see some sort of graph showing when various moderations were applied. The original rapidly became 4 interesting and then decline to 2 troll (perhaps because it had now got noticed) climbed back to 3 interesting and no down to 2 again through application of a flamebait. Wacky.