Perl's State of the Onion 10 126
chromatic writes "Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion addresses cover subjects such chemistry, science, music, lingustics, and screensavers. They occasionally discuss Perl too. This year's, State of the Onion 10 compares raising children into productive adults to guiding the development and design of a programming language. Perl turns 19 soon; Larry says that she'll truly grow up with Perl 6."
More useful stuff about Perl 6 (Score:5, Informative)
Perl 6 might be great... not. (Score:3, Informative)
For example, here's two choice quotes from the Perl 6 operators [perl.org] page.
Hypocrisy in action, folks.
Re:Summary (Score:4, Informative)
To know what Perl 6 will be like, read the Synopses [perl.org].
My own reaction was more like, wow this guy really is nuts, but I really want to see what he'll manage to come up with. :-) (and I say that as a professional Perl programmer...)
Debugging (Score:3, Informative)
Perl has a really nice debugger, but you can't use it for debugging scripted web pages. There are solutions, but mostly they're not provided with the standard Linux distributions. I'd like some sort of online solution that doesn't require lots of configuration.
Re:Death Valley (Score:3, Informative)