Larry Wall on the Zen of Perl 6

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 17, 2008 8:42 AM EDT
The Register; By Ted Dziuba
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Laziness, impatience, and hubris: the three qualities that make a programmer, according to Larry Wall, the creator of Perl. Perl earned its fame years ago by being the major language driving web programming, and distinguished itself from the rest of the pack by allowing developers to write full-featured programs using nothing but punctuation. Perl 6, which has been in development for the better part of a decade, has shown Larry to be at least one third correct. Which third, however, depends on who you ask.

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