grout·vor 14 Jahren·discussRule of thumb: If any part of your pitch sounds like Microsoft marketing, you're not ready.
grout·vor 14 Jahren·discussThe readability arguments need to include such modules as Method::Signatures::Simple, which replaces the old manual method (no pun intended) with: method foo ($a, $b) { $self->blargh($a + $b); }
grout·vor 14 Jahren·discuss"using rhetorical force to invalidate contrary views"Thank you for epitomizing what makes Linus worth emulating.Rhetorical force. Coooool.
grout·vor 14 Jahren·discussForth's necessity of carrying the stack in short-term memory while coding and debugging has seemed to me its deepest flaw as a tool for mortals.
grout·vor 14 Jahren·discussMythical Man Month and Silver Bullet essay ought to be mandatory. K&R as well, and Stroustrup (both C++PL and Design and Evolution of C++).Programmers don't stand on each others' shoulders, but each others' feet.
grout·vor 14 Jahren·discussOpenSSL's command line tools are so antequated and annoying that I can't help thinking that they're being held back by the Powers That Be so as to discourage casual crypto.
grout·vor 14 Jahren·discusssigh Scientists stand on the shoulders of giants; programmers stand on each others' feet.
grout·vor 14 Jahren·discussThe only valid reasons to "leave" Perl apply equally to Python. Sorry, but it's true.Compilers are good enough for type systems to be advantages, now.
grout·vor 14 Jahren·discussYou're funny. If this really pushed you over the edge, you were born -on- the edge, and didn't give Perl a fair shake.