use Perl

• theatre (Score:1)

  by jjohn (22)

  Last I saw him, Tom was waxing nostalgic about his days in musical theatre.
  • Re:theatre (Score:2)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    You just blew my mind!

    I will now require baba ganoug to make it all better.
    • Re:theatre (Score:2)

      by hfb (74)

      Musical theatre? Like...Barbara Streisand tunes or more like Gilbert and Sullivan? Both present an equally horrific mental image :)
      • Re:theatre (Score:1)

        by jjohn (22)

        Yes. Yes. and Yes.
• Did you mean... (Score:2)

  by jdavidb (1361)

  Did you mean C<??>? I always agreed with his analysis on that issue, but it's been awhile since I read it.

  I had a title for this message called "// ??" but slash doesn't like it. :)

  --
  J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
• SlashSlash (Score:1)

  by rafael (2125)

  Brent Dax submitted a patch [mpe.mpg.de] to p5p to implement a Perl6-style // operator. It wasn't applied due to the code freeze, but I think Hugo is considerating it for 5.9.
• Tom and // (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  To be fair, when // and //= were last proposed, they were in the form of ||| and |||=. Tom rejected them out-of-hand because they were unperlish, and Larry rejected them because they were too difficult to read and mistype.

  Now that Larry's re-blessed the idea as //, things are different, and that's mostly because of a simple respelling of ||| to make it more perlish.

  But Tom did drive a lot of people away from working on Pod for a long time. Unfortunately. He did have a point, and that point seems to h