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Perl 5.11.0 Released
jamie points out that Perl 5.11.0 was released yesterday, as well as a schedule for future 5.11.x releases, planned for the 20th of every month. Jesse Vincent encouraged testing of the new (development) version, saying, "If you write software in Perl, it is particularly important that you test your software against development releases. While we strive to maintain source compatibility with prior releases wherever possible, it is always possible that a well-intentioned change can have unexpected consequences. If you spot a change in a development release which breaks your code, it's much more likely that we will be able to fix it before the next stable release. If you only test your code against stable releases of Perl, it may not be possible to undo a backwards-incompatible change which breaks your code."
Once the king of the scripting languages, too many better competitors with powerful features have sprung up, and we're still stuck with Perl 5 limitations. Perl 6 started in 2000, still not released and the 20-oughts decade is almost over. Way too many features thrown into that hodge-podge specification and overall way too complex. In short, with Perl 6 (should it ever really actually go out of pre-release status) the already crufty syntax of Perl 5 is going from "whale guts" to "its raining whales".
Larry is old enough we should start placing bets, does he die before Perl 6 comes out? does Perl die even before he does? Should Perl 6 be euthanized? should Larry? ok, just kidding with that last bit
Let me give you a vision... You're in your early 20s, overweight, lazy, long greasy hair, hardcore gamer, living in mom's basement, you own a third rate katana, you wear a trench coat and some dollar store pentacle or Celtic necklace, big collection of Dungeons and Dragons shit, you tell people you're a Buddhist but have never read any of the buddhavacanas , you love Twilight, you hate work, you tell people you're geek but you've never had a single program work right, you hardly graduated public school and never even attempted college, like to talk science but you don't know the first thing about how anything works, you know even less about mathematics.
Yeah I know who you are, comic book fag. You're all the same.
P.S. Have a blast working second shift on a Friday night at the local Subway. You didn't have anything else going on anyway.
I constantly struggle to make various Python programs work.
Why can't people just write real programs in real languages?
Remember C and Java?
I take it you're a COBOL programmer?
- oZ
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Perl dominated the web back in the early days not so much because of its power or ability to do "heavy lifting", but because it was darn near your only choice for server-side development and scripting. This was pre-ASP, pre-CF, pre-PHP, and Ruby wasn't even a gleam in anyone's eye.
Perl is powerful, yes, but it's also complex, obtuse, and far surpases C in the obfusication department. The "smart and experienced people" abandoned it in droves the second easier to use and more productive tools became available.
I personally know of exactly one company that uses Perl at the moment, and that's only for text cleanup.
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Ladies, ladies, before you start talking about things you obviously lack the brains to comprehend, lets just remind everyone how one should measure an active development community. Lets examine the amount of modules in the default distribution for each of the top interpreted languages today: CPAN: 73018, PyPI: 7740, Pear: 132. A year ago, there were 58878 modules on CPAN (http://web.archive.org/web/20080730121430/http://search.cpan.org/). Draw your own conclusions whether the language is dead. Meanwhile, the Python (ex PHP retards) core team is still trying to figure out, 20 years deep in the development of the project, how to support UNICODE correctly. Good times!
When you know as much, and can do as much as Larry Wall, talk, meanwhile STFU.
Your a pretty fucking pathetic troll. even the worst trolls round here dont contract themselves in such an obvious way