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Larry Wall on Perl 6

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 20, 2005 @01:44AM 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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Re:Perl? Are you kidding me? by arevos · 2005-12-20 02:08 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Basically, perl is like Emacs or the CLI: it's a cult.

Whilst I agree with you generally, why did you consider the CLI to be 'a cult'? And to which CLI do you refer? Bash has its deficiencies and irregular syntax, but I don't know of anything better. Do you?