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This title is incorrect. He barely talks about Perl 6 at all! Stick to the facts, Soulskill; you'll end up with less disappointed readers when you don't go for misleading clickbait.

But, it's coming this Christmas!

Yeah, and what I'm talking about is ditching stuff like perlform, unless and statement modifiers, and incorporating a decent objective framework like MOP into core itself. A big job, and, like you say, probably not a lot of people willing to do it. Might as well reimplement.

I dunno, the authors of Go seem to be making some pretty good decisions so far.

Absolutely. I was a big proponent of a new name (and a better logo http://wirespeed.wordpress.com...), but I don't see that changing. Which is sad, because the lack of solid branding has always been one of its biggest problems. :(

Perl 6, what's that? Seriously though, it's nice to see p5 undergoing productive changes as the grand wait for Perl 6 wears on and as it becomes more clear that the Perl 6 we're getting might not be the one we wanted. Having said that, I find it annoying that the focus on backwards compatibility hamstrings new features to the degree that everything is marked as unstable or experimental and we're left just writing the same damn old perl 5 we've been writing for years. We keep dancing around the issue, but what's really needed is a breaking fork of p5 to revamp the code base and remove a lot of the cruft and make a language that can be parsed by more than just the perl interpreter. Better packaging would be nice too. I'd love to see Perl offer proper bundled binaries a la Go.

Agreed. There is no substitute for good network security. If your business doesn't have behavior and signature-based network security and an isolated-host wireless network with strong encryption and authentication, you are doing something wrong. Furthermore, if your VPN gateway is open to the world and the password is shared, ANY employee can log in using ANY machine they so choose. If this person is still able to get into your secured network despite reformatting the laptop, what does it matter which OS is on it? That said, it sounds like the real issue here is that you're going to be pushing your boundaries from day 1. You might want to cool it, put the POS company laptop into a box, and just use your own personal machine.

Replace 'PHP' with 'Perl' and this is a good response.

It's cute, but not terribly impressive. There's only rudimentary scrolling of a map that is entirely hard-coded, no movement other than the blocks representing the world and the player itself (which is locked to a specific column that can only decrease). It might be a bit more of a technological achievement if the music was coming from the same board, but it's a totally separate, single purpose board.