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Perl's Extreme Makeover

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-likes-it-don't-we-precious dept.

PurdueGraphicsMan writes "There's an article over at Yahoo! about the upcoming version of Perl (version 6) and some of the new features (RFC list). From the article: "Although Perl 5's expressions are the most sophisticated available and aspired to by other programming languages, "no one pretends for a moment that they're anything but hideously ugly," said Damian Conway, a core Perl developer and associate professor at Monash University in Australia.""

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  1. Re:Expressions .. by zeroclip · · Score: 1, Troll

    "Ummmmmmm, what the fuck is this supposed to mean?

    This is only true for newbies. Experienced programmes in any language can figure what stuff means, even if they looking at code they dident write themselvs.