Perl rant by Erik Naggum

I don't use Perl much anymore, but I never had a problem with it when I did. Stop complaining and write some code.

The road to The Right Way is paved with anxiety, and the road to Worse is Better isn't paved at all.

I wish it would actually contained any concrete reasons. That might be highly interesting.

Not to be taken seriously anymore:<p>Date: 2000/03/28<p>Tons of stuff changed.

Ha, if Erik was still among us, he would be downvoted to death in HN. RIP.

Do other languages handle RegExp better? Most newer ones just adopt perl-style RegExp, but the concept is not original to perl. I found it interesting that he singled out RegExp (how to tell if you have a false positive).