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Name: Anonymous 2015-09-09 15:36

So, I've always heard Perl is a bad language, write only etc. I've recently learned it, and now I can write some serious Perl. And you know what? I like it. It's not elegant as Haskell or clean as Python, but if you know it well you can make it elegant and clean.

Actually, I like it more than FIOC. And Python used to be my preferred language! In a sense it's like a reverse Randal (see https://xkcd.com/353/ alt text).

So, some people think Perl is in decline, being replaced by more modern languages. [citation needed].

What do you think of this? Is there any Perl lover here who can tell me it's not gone? I want Perl among us for years to come.

Can we has it?

Name: Lord Jesus Himself 2015-09-15 4:49

>>37
"To follow up. Employers are looking for the following languages in this order:
1) PHP5
2) Java"

Grabs gun and shoots himself... Java and PHP... Vomit, Vomit, Vomit. Uriel is gone, for what reasons again?

Name: Adam Tells Eve 2015-09-15 4:54

perl == php
two of the same jokes.
What's the difference between perl and PHP? Nothing, they both start with "pee"

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 12:13

>>42
perl[0] === php[0]

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 15:22

>>36
I wouldn't do a large project in perl, but I wouldn't want to be without it for tedious sys admin shit.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 15:40

>>44
Learn to bash.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 17:18

>>45
I'll bash you.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 22:49

>>40
dude just post some relevant source already instead of saying that we should go read it. I'm not going to read PHP in my fucking spare time asshole.

Name: Adam on Eve 2015-09-15 23:42

>>43

you just responded to 42, the meaning of life. dubs.

Name: Adam on Eve 2015-09-15 23:45

>>47

Posting the wikimedia source code, would blow up this website with bloatware regex that exploded your brain into &*#@! Go download the wikimedia source, and ask yourself, could they have engineered this better - could they have programmed this better, by using a maintainable parser.. case, switch, case, switch, case, switch, increment++ case, switch Call Procedure, analyze substring, increment, get_next_char(),

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 23:48

eat dick!

Name: Engine Stalled 2015-09-15 23:53

^ eat Dick - Eat Richard Stallman - Dick, Stall. Man.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 0:46

>>48
OH WOW LE 42 LE REDDIT XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD LE ah fuck this and fuck you and your stupid fucking le science man wow universe 420 hitchhiker book that nigger idiot britshit author and snigger idiot followers like you

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 1:06

>>49
What's with you and all these weird names?

Name: Seinfield 2015-09-16 1:11

>>53
An evangelical christian like the perl author uses references such as adam and eve to spread the word of Christ, almighty. Some of us know very well that this is just a lisp program that stallman wrote in 1984 and string theory = lisp theory.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 1:19

>>54
If it was string theory, it would be Perl. G-d said so Himself.

Name: Anon E. Mouse 2015-09-16 1:21

>>55

perl is what little human brains have created. no quantum computer system would be programmed in such a pathetic tool.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 1:53

>>56
are you from another planet lol XD

Name: Anon E. Mouse 2015-09-16 5:13

it's much easier to send signals down a wire through time than it is to send a full physical grey via a spaceship

Name: Reptilian 2015-09-16 6:13

>>58
You are going to get probed so hard you stupid little earthling.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 17:35

I kisses a Perl and I liked it.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 19:46

>>59
Careful you're not talking to a grey, the cards may be reversed.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-17 18:57

### Containers
# In Perl 6, values are actually stored in "containers".
# The assignment operator asks the container on the left to store the value on
#  its right. When passed around, containers are marked as immutable.
# Which means that, in a function, you'll get an error if you try to
#  mutate one of your arguments.
# If you really need to, you can ask for a mutable container using `is rw`:
sub mutate($n is rw) {
  $n++;
  say "\$n is now $n !";
}

(from http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/perl6/ )

Perl 6 is the next big thing. Just installed rakudo and played a bit with the REPL, it's pretty good!

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-17 21:01

>>62
You can also do is copy which I like.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-17 23:11

Fuck Perl 6. Piece of post-modernist garbage.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-17 23:24

>>64
Yeah, the pre-futurist Perl 7 is much better.

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-18 13:27

check 'em

Name: Anonymous 2015-09-18 16:19

">>66" =~ m/(\d)\1$/ and "checked"

Perl!

1 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-09 15:36

41 Name: Lord Jesus Himself 2015-09-15 4:49

42 Name: Adam Tells Eve 2015-09-15 4:54

43 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 12:13

44 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 15:22

45 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 15:40

46 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 17:18

47 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 22:49

48 Name: Adam on Eve 2015-09-15 23:42

49 Name: Adam on Eve 2015-09-15 23:45

50 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-15 23:48

51 Name: Engine Stalled 2015-09-15 23:53

52 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 0:46

53 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 1:06

54 Name: Seinfield 2015-09-16 1:11

55 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 1:19

56 Name: Anon E. Mouse 2015-09-16 1:21

57 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 1:53

58 Name: Anon E. Mouse 2015-09-16 5:13

59 Name: Reptilian 2015-09-16 6:13

60 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 17:35

61 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-16 19:46

62 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-17 18:57

63 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-17 21:01

64 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-17 23:11

65 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-17 23:24

66 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-18 13:27

67 Name: Anonymous 2015-09-18 16:19