Random Perl 6 syntax rant

[Peter Hickman]

Andy Wardley wrote:
> I know Perl has a reputation for being unreadable line noise, but I 
> didn't
> think this was the single quality that Perl 6 was trying to 
> emphasise.  Sigils
> are a nice idea, but not when you have to wade through three of them 
> before
> you can reach the symbol name.
>

It's all part of the plan, make Perl so unreadable that only CAMRA 
loving beardy wierdos can use it and we'll all have jobs for life.

BWAAAAHAHAHA!!! [1]

Seriously we don't want just anybody programming in Perl do we?[2]

[1] Not sure how many As there should be in the BWAAAA part. Four seems 
to be a minimum.
[2] Look what happened to PHP.

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