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Perl's State of the Onion 10

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that-time-of-year dept.

chromatic writes "Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion addresses cover subjects such chemistry, science, music, lingustics, and screensavers. They occasionally discuss Perl too. This year's, State of the Onion 10 compares raising children into productive adults to guiding the development and design of a programming language. Perl turns 19 soon; Larry says that she'll truly grow up with Perl 6."

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  1. More useful stuff about Perl 6 by Ed+Avis · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can start programming in Perl 6 today using Pugs.

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  2. Perl 6 might be great... not. by VGPowerlord · · Score: 2, Informative
    Perl 6 may be great. However, having read some of the docs, I don't think so.

    For example, here's two choice quotes from the Perl 6 operators page.
    • -> becomes ., like the rest of the world uses.
    • The ? : conditional operator becomes ?? !!.

    Hypocrisy in action, folks.
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  3. Re:Summary by Scarblac · · Score: 3, Informative

    To know what Perl 6 will be like, read the Synopses.

    My own reaction was more like, wow this guy really is nuts, but I really want to see what he'll manage to come up with. :-) (and I say that as a professional Perl programmer...)

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  4. Debugging by cerberusss · · Score: 2, Informative

    What I would really REALLY like to come with Perl isn't about the language itself, but about the tools.

    Perl has a really nice debugger, but you can't use it for debugging scripted web pages. There are solutions, but mostly they're not provided with the standard Linux distributions. I'd like some sort of online solution that doesn't require lots of configuration.

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  5. Re:Death Valley by 0xABADC0DA · · Score: 2, Informative

    Smalltalk and LISP, obviously. Like Merlin, they were born fully formed and age backwards, getting more and more relevant as time passes.