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What's with the Python? (Score:1)
A very well written article. But what has Python got to do with it? Yes, "Beautiful is better than ugly." but "Form follows function." and "A witty saying proves nothing." Perl has its own culture, its own community, its own egregor and its own spirit. Do we want to be Python? Do we want to be Ruby? I would like Perl to be Perl. If I wanted Perl tu be Python, I'd use Python.
Also, there have been lots of proposals for changes, especially to the looks of various parts of the Perl infrastructure. But the probl
Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
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> Do we want to be Python? Do we want to be Ruby? I would like Perl to be Perl. If I wanted Perl tu be Python, I'd use Python.
Yes. Yes we do.
Perl has always been about taking the best ideas from other languages and borging them in.
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And what are those ideas in this case?
Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
Re:What's with the Python? (Score:2)
Beauty is better than ugly...sometimes.
Perl is good, the marketing side is ugly as Alias has pointed out.
To be honest, the glass onion look is a great start in my opinion.
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We need to reference Python to say that the Perl sites need to look better?
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No.