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• State of the Onion
  2005-10-31 00:16:26 giantpencil [Reply]
  
  Larry Wall does it again, again and again.

  
  I must say I've been programming on and off for sixteen years(now 26). I'm probably like mr x because I live here in NZ and I'm half crazy, well proclaimed fully crazy and I'm sure the Internet is just an illusion, because the people on it are somewhere else :-)

  
  Big ups to Larry and the crew for working so hard on Perl 6, Perl 5 is awesome and I'm still trying to figure out to understand life. One day I'll get there and then I'll find Perl 6 and adopt it as my new fashion.

  
  At the end of the earth it's not to much of a cult, following or craze. In fact when I tell people I know Perl they say Pearl? Huh?

  
  Especially if their one of those borg microsoft programers.

  
  But all the best Perl has been and continues to be great for data manipulation and general sort of hacking about.

• Sometimes less is more
  2005-10-02 16:05:15 kevinhutchinson [Reply]
  
  Some/many/most of the new Perl 6 features look really useful and a definite improvement over Perl 5. But sometimes it feels like over-kill. While waiting for Perl 6 I've been dabbling with Ruby and I like what I see, but now I feel like a double-agent. Don't hate me - it's just a phase...

• on getting rolled back
  2005-09-22 23:31:07 TomLord [Reply]
  
  As worth it as it is to keep trying when you are
  rolled back on something that you know is important,
  it is just as important to back off and seek a
  different route when you get rolled back on
  something and then realize that happened for
  good reason.

  
  -t