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Comment Re:sweet manatee of galilee (Score 1) 48

That's interesting, I'm quite confused on what video I should recommend you...

Who are "we"? If you are a Perl user and you subset of features is just working, congrats. If you're not a Perl user, why do you thing any other person in the whole world doesn't need it? If you're a Perl user and really need something else, help the community expressing it with real examples instead of throwing things like that. Or is Perl being maintained and financed by a bigtech we're not aware of and there are hundreds of engineers working every single day on features/bugfix?

Btw, tell what language interpreter or compiler in which system/linux distro/... is 100% ready for the new feature at day-1? I'm a former Linux Kernel engineer and maintainer at Red Hat and I ensure you things like that would take months to reach the base system for whatever language you think is the best: Go, Python, Haskell, whatever. Why don't you try something like "perlbrew" to get whatever version you want from Perl right away, exactly how you would with Pyhon or any other language that has a third-party package management system?

AFAICT it seems you think Perl is useless nowadays, is that right? Do you use Linux, *BSD, MacOS? May I suggest you to check file types on /usr/bin/* or even /sbin/* and count them? Or maybe, check for Red Hat (my former employer) engineering job position descriptions about "Perl or other scripting language"? Or even check for systems like Booking.com, CPanel, Fastly, ... Ah, what am I trying to do? YOU are too well-versed on every single thing done in the world to the point you assume you're part of some ("RANDOM") WE that include every single one working on every single part of computing engineering. Just do me a favor, don't include ME on YOUR WE :). That's not because you shinny niche don't use it, that others are in the same boat. Guess what, you're not alone in the world dude.

Stop being so pretentious and arrogant.
(NOTE: I'm not even that much of a Perl user, I am only genuinely bewildered by responses like yours.)

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