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Apocalypse 5 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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."

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  1. first post? by httpamphibio.us · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    huh... twice in a week. that would be amazing if this actually was.

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    1. Re:first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's amazing! A girl likes me! Go outside and enjoy life.

  2. python by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Perl sucks, use python

  3. Cant wait to get my hands on it. by as400as2 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As soon as I get home from work that is....

  4. Re:slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:30:07 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) mod_perl/1.25 mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a Cache-Control: private Pragma: private Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html

    Why doesn't Slashdot ever admit when they've broken their site? For crying out loud, if CNN or Yahoo went down this much they'd go out of business! How about NOT doing changes on production systems guys? Don't you have a testbed server you can use? If it was just broke because something crashed then that's even worse!

  5. !!!GO USA!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Are we going to have the best soccer teams now also?

    I almost feel sorry for the rest of the world, we are kicking their ass in every political, social, education, and economic category..

    and now we are schooling them in their own sports? BAHAHAH!

    Whats left, world rugby and cricket champions?

    GO USA!

    1. Re:!!!GO USA!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      we are kicking their ass in every political...category

      Yep.

      • Most Astonishingly Daft Head of State
      • Policies Most Likely to Trash The Environment
      • Least Qualms About Breaking International Treaties
      • Most Starry-Eyed Missile Defence Policy Anywhere
      • Most Obvious Hereditary Presidency
      • President Least Likely To Be Able To Walk And Chew Gum At The Same Time
      GO USA! Please.
    2. Re:!!!GO USA!!! by Numen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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?

  6. Re:Perl's had it's day - It's become like COBOL by ajm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

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  7. Re:New regexes by sjnokker · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're damn right, but nevertheless will get modded down. If I had any mod points, you would get mine though.

    I'll make an obviously futile attempt to preserve the points of this comment: "perl doesn't suck as much on linux as it does on windows".

  8. Re:Most languages stick around through inertia by ajm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

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  9. Re:Many /. moderators suck by ajm · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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.

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  10. Re:Larry has jumped off the deep end by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Of course he's jumped off the deep end. What else would you expect from a silly christian?