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Perl 6 Synopsis 5

Posted by timothy on from the making-the-impossible-accessable dept.

XaXXon writes: "perl.com has Synopsis 5 for Perl 6 up. It's a brief overview of all the changes made in Larry Wall's Apocalypse 5. Lots of stuff about the new regex syntax. I must admit, however, that I'm getting tired of reading about perl 6 -- I want to start using it." We posted Larry Wall's 5th Apocalypse in May.

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  1. Perl 5 was nice by ObviousGuy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Perl 6 seems to be a whole new camel. This one's definitely uglier and has two humps.

    The Perl community seems to have become something of an inbred group where the only ideas come from people who have been using Perl exclusively for years. While this may be fine for a while, the end result is a jumble of personal preferences and half-baked ideas.

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    I have been pwned because my /. password was too easy to guess.
  2. I prefer command-line PHP to Perl these days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I used to be a big fan of Perl, but I've found that I can typically code any particular application much more quickly using PHP compiled for command-line operation.

    Is it just me, or have other's found this? Also, the performance of command-line PHP is quite acceptable.