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Category Archives: Perl

Scala: Post-Functional, Post-Modern, or Just Perl++?

By Robert Fischer | March 6th, 2010
Protip to Scala people: If one of the fundamental stunts of a style is pervasive in all the code but yours, you're not in the same style of programming.
Also posted in Classic, Programming Language Punditry | Tagged , , | 69 Comments

Functional (Meta)?Programming Stunts for Ruby and Groovy (and a Little Perl)

By Robert Fischer | June 24th, 2008
After I learned OCaml, my coding mindset was totally distorted. I started writing Java code that looked like this: [...]
Also posted in Groovy, Ruby/JRuby | Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

I Made This For All My Perl Peeps

By Robert Fischer | February 29th, 2008
(If you don’t get the joke, read this. The industry-standard CPAN Perl library also hosts a bunch of Larry [...]
Also posted in Humor, Programming Language Punditry | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

A Defense of Prototypes, or, Why Does Tom Christiansen Hate Perl?

By Robert Fischer | October 19th, 2005
Perl Prototypes aren't the enemy.
Also posted in Classic | Tagged | 5 Comments