Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community 123
LostDiver writes "Computerworld Australia caught up recently with Larry Wall of Patch and Perl fame. He talks about the development of Perl as 'scratching an itch,' a release date for Perl 6 (Christmas day, year unknown) and beauty versus practicality. Computerworld also has some more information on the upcoming Perl 6. A while back they interviewed Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame as well."
jamie pointed out a interesting, related video of a presentation by Clay Shirky from last year's Supernova conference in which he discusses why the Perl community (or any web community) drives progress and innovation.
Perl culture on public display (Score:3, Funny)
The quality and intelligence of graffiti is inversely proportional to the difficulty in putting it wherever it is. Dangerous spots on train lines? Misspelt tags. Quiet abandoned swimming pools? Computer scientists with spray cans. [today.com] Now, that's Perl in Popular Culture!
Good reasons for the delay (Score:5, Funny)
Some important changes had to be made to support the developers of Duke Nukem Forever, who are rewriting the project from scratch in Perl 6. The good news is that means Perl 6 is right around the corner!
Re:Christmas? (Score:3, Funny)
Well, I didn't bother to include Perl because everybody knows it's the 800 pound gorilla. 20 years of script hacking don't just go away, whereas python and ruby only started gaining traction in the last 5ish years.
Re:Christmas? (Score:2, Funny)
"I was either onto something, or on something."
-Larry Wall