grout·14 lat temu·discussRule of thumb: If any part of your pitch sounds like Microsoft marketing, you're not ready.
grout·14 lat temu·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·14 lat temu·discuss"using rhetorical force to invalidate contrary views"Thank you for epitomizing what makes Linus worth emulating.Rhetorical force. Coooool.
grout·14 lat temu·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·14 lat temu·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·14 lat temu·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·14 lat temu·discusssigh Scientists stand on the shoulders of giants; programmers stand on each others' feet.
grout·14 lat temu·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·14 lat temu·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.