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Larry Wall on Perl 6

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-it-would-make-sense-that-he-talks-about-that dept.

Nate writes "Linux Format magazine has an interview with Larry Wall, the eccentric linguist and coder behind Perl. Larry discusses some of the new Perl 6 features ready to rock the world, and if you're not planning to move from Perl 5.8, he has a few musings on that too."

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  1. Re:Full article text by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny
    you have to buy the magazine to get the full text...
    And yet you felt the need to copy and paste the bit they gave you, and title it "Full Article Text".

    You sir, are a cretin.
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  2. Grammatical mutability... by Dystopian+Rebel · · Score: 5, Funny
    This lets different kinds of grammatical mutability sneak into the language, and lets people experiment with different syntaxes and different ways of attaching those syntaxes to new kinds of semantics.


    Translation: "Perl 6 code will be the most unreadable Perl ever."

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  3. Cover Quote by holdp · · Score: 5, Funny

    The dead tree version had on the cover a very Larryish
    quote - (roughly) We have 80% of Perl6 done and we are now working on the next 80%.