Re^8: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018

The only language in wide currency today that I think is unequivocally bad is PHP. Haskell is a meme academic language but I would hesitate to call it "bad".

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Re^9: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 13, 2018 at 02:46 UTC
Ha. Strangely enough, the first partly working implementation of Perl6 was written in Haskell by Perl luminary audreyt.	[reply]
Re^10: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by Crosis (Beadle) on Apr 13, 2018 at 02:55 UTC
I don't understand why people use that meme language when it makes basic tasks so difficult.	[reply]
Re^11: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Apr 13, 2018 at 04:32 UTC
I've never used it so I can't say. Audrey is smarter and a much better hacker than I am and put together a Perl6 compiler with it so I'm confident there is something in there. :P	[reply]
Re^11: Curious about Perl's strengths in 2018 by LanX (Saint) on Apr 13, 2018 at 08:15 UTC
Monads. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]


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