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State of the Onion 11

Posted by Zonk on from the my-personal-favorite-is-french-onion-soup dept.

chromatic writes "Larry Wall's State of the Onion 11 address is now online. Every year, he describes the state of Perl and its community through metaphor and analogy. This year, Larry explored the history of scripting languages, from their dimly-lit beginnings to their glorious future. Along the way, he also describes several of the design principles invoked in the design of Perl 6. 'When I was a RSTS programmer on a PDP-11, I certainly treated BASIC as a scripting language, at least in terms of rapid prototyping and process control. I'm sure it warped my brain forever. Perl's statement modifiers are straight out of BASIC/PLUS. It even had some cute sigils on the ends of its variables to distinguish string and integer from floating point. But you could do extreme programming. In fact, I had a college buddy I did pair programming with. We took a compiler writing class together and studied all that fancy stuff from the dragon book.'"

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  1. Frost piss by (TK2)Dessimat0r · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Perl can fuck off and die. What a terrible programming language.

  2. Re:Yup... and he doesn't apologize for it by krog · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Like I said elsewhere, if you can't keep your head afloat in choppy waters, you're free to use whichever kiddie-pool language you want. You can shit out your ten-minute Rails apps to your heart's content, and I shall continue to write concise, higher-order Perl which will fuck you and leave you in an alley.

    --
    Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
  3. Re:Local man writes script for posterity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Jokes that aren't fucking funny have a tendency not to make people laugh.

    You need a chuckle, go take a look in the mirror sometime asswipe.