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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 , , | 84 Comments

My Fundamental Issue with Ruby

By Robert Fischer | February 1st, 2009
If you're going to play it fast-and-loose with types, that really is fine by me. But Ruby gets on my nerves with the way it does not let me do typing when useful and yet eagerly punishes me for using the wrong types.
Also posted in Classic, Programming Language Punditry, Ruby/JRuby | Tagged , , | 21 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: public [...]
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 Wall [...]
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