Ten yard penalty for gratuitous Perl bashing.

Second down and 20.

Guido is the guy with the car.
Where I grew up, most of the Guidos were Irish kids anyway.

> The majority's view of Perl seems to be stuck back in the 90s.

The majority generally do not pay attention, and also hate it when their view of the universe is threatened by facts.

Perl will continue to have it's place, as do Fortran, COBOL, etc. It wasn't my first language, and isn't my last, but it's still my bread and butter.
Despite using it for 20 years, there are still some things that are idiomatic AWK for me. I'm sure it will be the same way with Perl, even after I've used Ruby or Python for a long time.

Are you using 5.16.2?
Are you using Moose/Mouse/Moo for complex data types and/or object oriented programming.?

Perl is alive and well.

If you think of 5 as being a syntax identifier, then you might be pleased to see all of the development that's gone on since Perl 4 gave way to Perl 5.

It sounds a little bit like you're complaining that Perl's development has not followed your idea of semantic version numbering.

The best defense is a good offense - Mel, the cook on Alice.

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo James Cameron James Cameron

They used to study brain injuries by whacking ferrets in their cute little heads.

Where are my moderator points when I need them!?!

Hospitals are notorious this this kind of IT stupidity.

You're not eating the cost of burning releases to media.
Push early, push often, but have a rock solid, bulletproof rollback mechanism.

Seriously, that's what staging is for. push it, roll it back, push it, roll it back.
Since you don't have to stick to a golden master, media reproduction schedule,
push a feature as soon as it is ready.

If your organization can't get past big quarterly releases, then they will not succeed with more nimble competition.
The organization has to adapt. So wither the management adapts, or gets replaced.

Maw: Who you gonna vote fer?
Paw: I dunno, who you gonna vote fer?
Maw: I think I'ma gonna vote fer Romney.
Paw: Why you gonna do that?
Maw: Well, people on Facebook like him.
Paw: what about all those policies that you disagree with?
Maw: Who cares about that? People on Facebook like him. That's what really matters.

> In none of the countries where cycling is common it is required to where helmets and in every country where helmets are mandatory, cycling isn't very popular.

Your correlation is interesting. How about mine?

Cycling is not popular in countries/areas with a high per capita rate of car ownership. In those places, right of ways are designed for automobiles, without thought given to cycling traffic. The bias against safe pathways for cycles continues to depress the rate of cycling. In areas of high car ownership, but with safe cycle-ways, there is more cycling than in those without such ways.

Way to go Fruit Loops!

> Neil Young planned the invasion of Kuwait.

Wrong Canadian. It was Supreme General Leonard Cohen.

This story sounds a lot like how our government treats our war veterans here in the USA.
"Thanks for your service. We're sort of sorry that you're not feeling well. Please go away."

Inexcusable behaviour.