On: The Programming Language with the Happiest Users

[bobochan]

I was shocked by that too, but you are absolutely right. One of my favorite modules in that spirit was Damian Conway's Lingua::Romana::Perligata which made it possible to "write Perl programs in Latin." Just reading the documentation was like absorbing a burst of pure geek energy. I immediately spent a week playing with it.

[tapostrophemo → bobochan]

Acme::Magpie

[berntb → bobochan]

Conway scares me.

It feels like Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos when he starts a keynote, you expect to hear things programmers weren't supposed to understand and go insane.

I'd still pay good money for a DVD with Conway's collected talks. (You have to take some risks in life.)

[SwellJoe → berntb]

My co-founder had Conway as a professor at Monash University many years ago. This fact might explain a few things.