Tomorrow will be the most important day of the 21st century
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 17:41
Tomorrow, Christmas of 2015, our Greatest Leader, Larry Wall, will finally release Perl 6. Are you ready /prog/?
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 18:09
Still waiting, Lemote.
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 18:52
What's the point?
If people used UNIX properly, you wouldn't need Perl.
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 18:57
>>3it ain't UNIX if it havent PERL!
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 19:01
>>4I don't see Perl in the POSIX specification.
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 19:09
Name:
LAC doppleganger
2015-12-23 19:10
>>5POSICS is for college kiddos: all unixes have some PERL installed
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 19:12
>>7All except the biggest one of all.
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 20:53
Perl is a hack on top of a hack on top of a hack, so many layers down that you can't tell what the original hack was.
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 20:55
Everybody does know that "That was Perl quality!" is a euphemism for "That was shit!", right?
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 20:56
I looked through a little bit of the Perl 6 documentation and still can't figure out why to use it over Perl 5. If anyone here knows, let me know.
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 21:56
>>11Tons of useful new features:
http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?the_long_perl_6_super_feature_list (there are some examples on the WP article)
Also, Perl 6 is being written in Perl 6, while Perl 5 can not even be properly parsed.
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-23 22:52
Perl is higher level assembly.
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-24 21:02
>>9It's hacks all the way down.
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-26 8:05
Name:
Anonymous
2015-12-26 16:06
I've been using Pugs since forever.
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