Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

1 of 126 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Perl 6 might be great... not. by grinder · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hypocricy? I don't think this word means what you think it means. Could you explain what you think is so hypocritical about this design decision?

    From what I understand, the Perl6 operators were chosen according to Huffman compression principles. Frequently used operators became shorter, less frequently used operators became longer.

    The bare colon operator turned out to be much more useful elsewhere. The dash-arrow operator was initially borrowed from C++, but these days, most dynamic languages all use dot for the same purpose.

    This sound more like pragmatism than anything else.