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The Perl Journal On The Ropes

Posted by pudge on from the help-me-obi-wan-perl-programmer dept.

rochlin writes "Looks like The Perl Journal might not make it up for air after all. This blurb is on their website. 'Time is running short and we need your help if The Perl Journal is to get another chance at being the real deal. As of a couple of minutes ago, we only have 881 subscriptions and the deadline is fast approaching. Please subscribe now. It only costs 3 cents per day to get the best Perl coverage anywhere.'" They need 3,000 subscribers to move forward.

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  1. I don't subscribe to any paper publications by g_bit · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't even get a Newspaper anymore. Why should I pay for delivery when I can use the Web? Personally, I hope the same thing happens to all dead-tree pubs...think of the savings!

    Besides, Perl is an ugly hack of a language anyway.

  2. Re:Is there any chance by dpt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You *stupid* monkey. Let me guess - Java weenie? I can't tell you how much crap, unreadable, ill conceived Java code I've had to fix.

    You just keep churning out 1000s of lines of semi-OO code, that will run like a dog, take up 46M, fall over every five minutes with "null pointer" exceptions, and that has an object model taken from somewhere in the 80s, and runs on 3 platforms. "Multiple inheritance make my head hurt", "why do I have to read books to know how to code", etc. Class invariants? Pre and post conditions? Closures? Computer science?