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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. Re:This may sound like a troll, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yay, perl-loving mods hate me now. Good. Take your line-noise "language" and go away, and come back when you grow up enough to use a real language.

    You heard me.

  2. Re:Death Valley by arodland · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're kidding, right? PHP is dead. It's just going to take a number of years before the people using it realize that. Nothing truly important is going to happen with PHP, because it's the wrong kind of lanaguage, with the wrong kind of community. Perl, Python, Ruby, even Java are non-toy languages with truly amazing web stuff going for them; PHP is for the kids, always has been, always will be -- even if some people are under the temporary delusion that it's more than that.