Re^2: I want you to convince me to learn Perl

> I don't like the community! I met too many incredibly arrogant people, who thought that bashing other languages makes them good programmers.

See also this charming G+ account of a Pythoniza.

Especially remarks like "Perlprogrammiererkonzentrationslager" are revealing ...

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^3: I want you to convince me to learn Perl by CountZero (Bishop) on Nov 24, 2013 at 15:53 UTC
Actually, "Perlprogrammiererkonzentrationslager" is not funny, even less so in German. It means "Perl Programmer Concentration Camp" and has bad and ugly overtones, especially in German. For certain Perl is not bondage & discipline or discrimination & xenophobia. CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply]
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Re^3: I want you to convince me to learn Perl by runrig (Abbot) on Nov 23, 2013 at 17:17 UTC
Since I don't know german, I'm going to read that as "Perl programmers drink concentrated lager"...which I don't have a problem with :-) So, just don't mess with my reality by telling me what it really means, 'kay?	[reply]
Re^4: I want you to convince me to learn Perl by LanX (Saint) on Nov 23, 2013 at 17:29 UTC
> So, just don't mess with my reality by telling me what it really means, 'kay? No! Just some hints how to deduce German words: "Lager" is - according to wiktinary - a cognate of the English word lairš A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain. Those concentrated supervillians !?! ;-) Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language) š)like with most of the 15000 other cognates not immediately obvious...	[reply]
Re^5: I want you to convince me to learn Perl by einhverfr (Friar) on Nov 24, 2013 at 13:38 UTC
well, if we are to be villains, we might as well be supervillains...	[reply]
Re^4: I want you to convince me to learn Perl by karlgoethebier (Abbot) on Dec 26, 2013 at 14:40 UTC
FYI: Nazi concentration camps Regards, Karl ŤThe Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostropheť	[reply]


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