Perl 5.10 for People Who Aren't Totally Insane

[prog]

From daerr, a cute slideshow about Perl 5.10.

Maybe a little too cute, though. For the love of gord: don't compare your project to "Star Wars: Episode 1" in the first five slides. You are basically saying "Yay lightsabers Ha ha ha :( fuck we're doomed". *slap* Snap out of it!!

It reminds me of a podcast I heard recently that featured a community luminary giving a presentation on Perl 6 syntax, and stating at the beginning that the entirety of the talk could be rendered obsolete this time next year. Well then! Thank for letting me know that now is a good time to hit the fast forward button on my iPod. (More than that, even; this was the beginning of the end of my assumption that Perl 6 will ever see a release.)

I dunno what it is with Perl people and their rush to out-self-efface each other, but it's not a very good way to win converts, yo.

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but it's not a very good way to win converts\

What's a language that's as big as Perl need converts for anyway?

That said, some of the new features look interesting, but I confess to being amused by the juxtaposition of getting rid of "the dreaded $1" with a handful of new features that build on Perl's unfortunate (to us non-guru types, anyway) tendency toward excessively compact implicit syntax.

[(Anonymous)]

Who wants to win converts? We'll just happily make fun of ourselves in all the free time we have from solving our problems quickly, elegantly, and effectively.