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Ask Larry Wall

Posted by Roblimo on from the from-the-master's-mouth-to-your-ear dept.

About what? Perl is probably a good topic choice. No one knows more about Perl than Larry Wall, right? We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Larry by email, and post his answers when we get them back. Note: Due to Slashdot's line length restrictions, lines of code over 50 characters long may not display correctly. Please be aware of this if you include code samples in your question.

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  1. Talk among yourselves... by NearlyHeadless · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    I will give you a topic: Perl-compatible regular expressions are neither regular nor perl-compatible; discuss.


    Seriously, man, we've got PCRE's in javascript, Python, Ruby, XML schema, etc. But now Perl 6 is going to have yet another syntax! Are you sure you want to do this?


    Maybe this is another question, but perhaps Perl 6 should actually be called something besides Perl?