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Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. bill by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist

  2. Re:Full text of the interview by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you were trying to Bel-air us, you failed. Your text is way too fucking long already for anyone to bother reading it, and in addition you didn't make any attempt to conceal the bel-air within it.

  3. Re:Dropping regex as a core lang feature by will_die · · 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.

  4. Christian? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He still Christian?

  5. Re:Christmas? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Calm down. Fucker.