Perl programmers are psychopaths

Christopher — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:28:21 +0000

I always suspected that anyone who likes to write Perl programs can’t be a healthy human being, but I didn’t know what evil, murderous psychopaths these people really are until I read this headline:

How to optionally kill a child and capture status if not killed

How could killing a child ever be optional? It’s illegal! It’s disgusting!

We must not tolerate these criminals in our midst any longer. Now is the time to put an end to that vicious disease called Perl.

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Magnus — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:20:58 +0000

I would like to point you to a study a professor of my university (i.e. my workplace) did with his team. One goal, nine teams, thirty hours, three platforms – J2EE, Perl and PHP. Why they did not evaluate Ruby or Python is far out of my knowledge (and why anyone would do actually web devopment in Perl), but the setting is interesting enough. A rather lengthy report can be found here.

Update: I did not read the document thoroughly enough. The answers to my questions:

“We had some contact with potential teams from the Python arena, but there were not sufficiently many who were qualified enough. In the end, only one formal request for participation was submitted, so we did not admit Python into the contest.”
“It was impossible to find Ruby-on-Rails teams (â€œwe are too busyâ€?). “

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Perl programmers are psychopaths

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