On: Charles Stross YAPCA keynote: The world in 2034

[InclinedPlane]

Hah. Well, Perl isn't a bad language, it's just past its prime and being outcompeted by other languages. It had a moment where it could have remained relevant but they missed it.

[BugBrother → InclinedPlane]

Sigh, here we go again. :-(

Better OO than the competing scripting languages, CPAN still beats any opposition (check CPAN testers), extensible syntax(!) etc.

And... you don't lose a hype war if you didn't really play it.

[acuozzo → BugBrother]

All you need is the following if you want to champion Perl.

http://dheeb.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/gbu.pdf

Perl does Unicode right. Look at page #3.

[BugBrother → acuozzo]

I'd settle for new subjects from the trolls, the present ones make tired reddit jokes look good.

Anyway, I thought Guido told 'em to stop, since they're getting a bad reputation?