Perl 5.10 for People Who Aren't Totally Insane

[prog]

From daerr, a cute slideshow about Perl 5.10.

Maybe a little too cute, though. For the love of gord: don't compare your project to "Star Wars: Episode 1" in the first five slides. You are basically saying "Yay lightsabers Ha ha ha :( fuck we're doomed". *slap* Snap out of it

Comments

[radtea]

but it's not a very good way to win converts\

What's a language that's as big as Perl need converts for anyway?

That said, some of the new features look interesting, but I confess to being amused by the juxtaposition of getting rid of "the dreaded $1" with a handful of new features that build on Perl's unfortunate (to us non-guru types, anyway) tendency toward excessively compact implicit syntax.

[anonymous]

Who wants to win converts? We'll just happily make fun of ourselves in all the free time we have from solving our problems quickly, elegantly, and effectively.