gentlemen (a small liberty, i admit) -
all of this *pointless* debate could be set aside - if all of you
would just renounce perl - and adopt ruby as your language
it's why larry has shut himself up in silence - feigning illness:
* true (not bolted-on) oo language
* modern (not post-modern) gc
* clean (not demented) syntax
* easy (not forced) portability
* embed into html, ala php
* not "expert friendly"
* no god complex
* no high priests
* easy to learn
* newbies welcome...
don't worry, i don't expect you to change languages (today!)
> sub test {
> my($foo, $bar, %baz);
> ...
> return \%baz;
> }
>> are we considering to deprecate this type of bad style?
> What bad style?
seriously, bad style? if this were an example of bad style,
cpan would crumble to cyber-dust... but would it matter..?
#! -w
my $perl = $bad->$style; # is there any other kind of perl?
print "$perl: the queen of write-only/non-profit languages";
>> Speaking of which, do any of the high priests know when
>> Larry might come down off the mountain? Any day now
>> the true believers are going to melt down their copies of
>> Camel III and cast themselves a golden Python.
here you're casting larry as moses, when in fact, perl people
seem to think he's god. anyway, it'd be a golden "c"... i'd say.
cheers!
yaphet
heretics of perl;
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