Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:49AM from the wall-to-wall-coverage dept.

LostDiver writes "Computerworld Australia caught up recently with Larry Wall of Patch and Perl fame. He talks about the development of Perl as 'scratching an itch,' a release date for Perl 6 (Christmas day, year unknown) and beauty versus practicality. Computerworld also has some more information on the upcoming Perl 6. A while back they interviewed Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame as well." jamie pointed out a interesting, related video of a presentation by Clay Shirky from last year's Supernova conference in which he discusses why the Perl community (or any web community) drives progress and innovation.

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Re:Dropping regex as a core lang feature by will_die · 2008-12-14 04:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Isn't Microsoft dropping parts of LINQ from .net 4.0?
I'm sure I glanced over something that said they were deprecating it and that while they would provide support they would have no future development and they were going to something else.