Re^2: The future of Perl?

Your anecdote reminds me of something that happened to me at work just a few days ago. A "data scientist" -- young guy, very hip -- saw over my shoulder that I was working on some Perl, and he quipped with a smirk, "Oh, you're a Perl guy? I'll try not to hold that against you."

My immediate thought was, "Oh, you're a douchebag? I'll try not to hold that against you!"

Point is, Perl has a uniformly bad reputation among whole generations of programmers. Although a few of us know better, it's still a reality which will be changed neither by Awesome New Version!!1! nor by version number manipu lexyacculation.

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re^3: The future of Perl? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 05, 2014 at 11:07 UTC
"Oh, you're a Perl guy? I'll try not to hold that against you." A while back on the PDL mailing list, Karl Glazebrook proposed that the collective noun for a gathering of python programmers be a "smug". It occurred to me that python programmers might, in response, assert that the collective noun for a group of perl5 programmers is a "cemetery". Any thoughts on the collective noun for a group of perl6 programmers ? ... an "hallucination" perhaps ? ;-) Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: The future of Perl? by jdporter (Paladin) on Nov 11, 2014 at 13:44 UTC
A hallucination, maybe, if we're going to pronounce English properly.	[reply]
Re^5: The future of Perl? by Jenda (Abbot) on Nov 11, 2014 at 13:51 UTC
Only in 'ertford, 'ereford and 'ampshire. Elsewhere it 'ardly hever 'appens :-) Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]
Re^5: The future of Perl? by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 11, 2014 at 13:53 UTC
Poor ol' Lucy Nations.	[reply]
Re^4: The future of Perl? by QM (Parson) on Nov 11, 2014 at 10:13 UTC
Perl 6: Blue Sky? Bleeding Ledge? Daydream? My outlook for Perl 6 is still positive, though it has certainly taken its time. Perhaps if it had been "finished" 10 years ago, we wouldn't be having this discussion? -QM -- Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of	[reply]


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