Re: perl should be improved and perl6

Dr.Ruud wrote:
jm schreef:

perl [...] is poorly typed

By you? (Did you mean Perl by the way?)

Honestly, you know full well he was talking about the programming
language that pertains to this here news group, so feign ignorance? I
mean why is this even such an issue? Other places where people talk
about programming languages don't seem to care if it's all caps, first
only capitalized, or all lowercase, or what have you. I've seen Java,
java, and JAVA, cpp, C++, c++, c, C, python, PYTHON, cobol, Cobol,
COBOL, and the list goes on.

So why make such a stink about something so damn trivial? Does it make
you feel special? Perl is great, but I've always thought some of it's
backers (at least in this group) could use a dose of reality and stop
behaving like such self-important elitists and come back down to Earth.
This BS just keeps on repeating and it serves no one any good
whatsoever.


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