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The most salient point, to my mind, was this line: "they didn't care that they saw it work in practice, since they already knew it couldn't work in theory." Th
by rcoder 18y ago
The most salient point, to my mind, was this line: "they didn't care that they saw it work in practice, since they already knew it couldn't work in theory."
That, and "Perl is a Shinto shrine." Larry Wall himself could hardly spin a better catchphrase.
- mleonhard 18y agoIs Perl like the shrine in that it doesn't change or improve? I think programming language technology has improved but Perl has yet to catch up. Nowadays one can be much more productive in other languages.
- mst 18y agoReally? I think you need to look at http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?MooseX::Declare http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?MooseX::Declare - perl5 the core language is flexible enough that you can extend the language up towards the problem from perl-space pretty well. It's one of the things I learned to love in lisp.
- jcromartie 18y agoLarry Wall might say "Perl is a house-church".