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perl bloat

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 17:25

why the fuck does perl have 10 000 operators and variables?
and just check out the list of core modules.

will perl6 fix this mess or will humanity be doomed to use this mess for the rest of its existence? its still better then c++, java, PHP, ruby and all that crap. is there anything that could kill perl without being shit?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 17:35

will perl6 fix this mess
Yes, 2010 will be the year of perl6 on the desktop

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 17:37

Perl is poetry. It's a scripting language, not technically a programming language, and there are so many special variables to reflect that (by design) you cannot affect core behaviour through function calls. The core modules define the keywords of the language, as well as special behaviour (ex. INIT et al) used by other modules. Its flexibility and beauty is at these costs.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 18:06

>>3
It's a scripting language, not technically a programming language
ಠ_ಠ

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 18:52

>>4
Let's just assume that he means say that it's an interpreted language, not a compiled one, and move on with the argument.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 19:00

>>5
perlcc begs to differ.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 20:14

>its still better then c++, java, PHP, ruby and all that crap

And that is because..?

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 20:36

>>7
Because QUOTING OPERATOR FAILURE

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 20:43

Someone implied here that you can't quote the way you like it lol

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 20:54

Perl6 is a completely different language than perl5

you cant fix perl5, its a text processing utility that grew into a programming language. Larry Wall threw everything but the kitchen sink into perl5, therefore its not a coherent programming language but rather a hodgepodge of syntax features and utilities that has become the sys-admin tool extrordinaire

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 21:19

>>1
will perl6 fix this mess
Yes, but there will still be a mess, and it will be larger and more regular. More room for revelry: http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/periodic/

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-29 23:11

Perl 6 is like a train wreck, but every car of the train was actually a kitchen sink.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-30 8:12

>> 12
Perl 6 is like a train wreck, but every car of the train was actually a cdr.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-30 8:55

>>13
Y'know, just throwing this out there, but a programming language->train made of cars makes a lot more sense than a train made out of cdrs.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-30 9:35

>>14
You seem to be forgetting that we're talking about perl 6 here.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-30 13:54

>>15
Not really. Perl6 doesn't make a whole pile of sense, but it's still a thing built out of more cars than cdrs. I have seen languages that work the other way so the charm of overstating perl's silliness is lost on me. Sorry.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-30 20:22

Y'know, just throwing this out there, but a programming language->train made of cars doesn't make any kind of sense either, since you need both the car and cdr of the cons to make a list.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-31 5:36

>>17
Lists are overrated anyway.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-31 9:10

All aboard the perl boat!

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-31 9:13

>>17
Yeah I get that, but the traincars should be, well, traincars and not traincdrs. I mean, imagine a language where your cars are cdrs. It's not Perl.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-31 9:48

>>20
What if your cars are cdrs and vice versa? That's imaginable.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-31 14:00

>>21
Entirely.

As I have been saying: it's possible, I've seen it, it's not Perl.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-31 17:17

>>20

So the traincars would be the cars and the couplings would be the cdrs?

Fascinating. A train really is just a list!

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-31 17:36

>>23
A train really is just a list!
Not just a list -- a list in motion. (Forgive me father, for I am too lazy to butt sort.)
Don't change these.
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