Which would be the same Steve Yegge who also said:
'As I've done for a great many other programming languages, I've bashed on Perl's technical weaknesses at length in the past. To my continued amazement, the Perl folks are the only ones who never get upset. They just say "Haha, yeah, boy, you're right, it sure is ugly. Heh. Yeah, so, um, anyway, I'm going to get back to work now..." It's awesome. I've gained so much respect for them. It's almost enough to make me go back to programming in Perl.'
So if his essay on the state of the art in Perl5 years ago scared you off, presumably the fact he's now noticed that we're (a) moving forwards (b) a happy, pragmatic and effective community will make you go look at it now?
There's even a new www.perl.org recently released (next big project - improving learn. ...)
'As I've done for a great many other programming languages, I've bashed on Perl's technical weaknesses at length in the past. To my continued amazement, the Perl folks are the only ones who never get upset. They just say "Haha, yeah, boy, you're right, it sure is ugly. Heh. Yeah, so, um, anyway, I'm going to get back to work now..." It's awesome. I've gained so much respect for them. It's almost enough to make me go back to programming in Perl.'
So if his essay on the state of the art in Perl5 years ago scared you off, presumably the fact he's now noticed that we're (a) moving forwards (b) a happy, pragmatic and effective community will make you go look at it now?
There's even a new www.perl.org recently released (next big project - improving learn. ...)