Today, when browsing through the popular sites of the day, I found several sites where the author found it necessary to sneer at Perl, where it wasn't even the subject of the post. And I wasn't even searching for it. Is this the new custom?
This is actually the least worrisome of the lot:
Although I find writing Perl to be painful for everything but processing text files in a terminal, I found the Perl GTK bindings to be relatively straightforward.
Steve Yegge writes:
You discover that jsdoc is a miserable sod of a Perl script that seg faults on about 50% of your code base, and — bear with me here — you've vowed never to write another line of Perl, because, well, it's Perl. Pick your favorite reason.
This is by far the worst of the lot, gratuitous Perl bashing:
It's as Marx said, lo these many years ago: "From each language, according to its abilities, to each project, according to its needs."Oh, except Perl. Perl just sucks, period. :-)
Just stop it, please. It's not funny.
What exactly about their badmouthing bothers you? Do you feel you should be compensated for loss of income?
Or are you trying to enforce honesty and integrity in blogs? Or maybe participating in a mission of an elite Perl counter-troll special forces team? In denial since Perl obviously does suck and you have been brainwashed for all these years?
Re:and how does that make you feel?
jrockway on 2008-01-25T12:21:26
His point is that it makes the authors look stupid, for absolutely no reason.I tried bashing another language on my blog once. It made me look like a moronic childish idiot. I learned my lesson and now only talk about things I'm qualified to talk about. Amazingly my blog is actually useful reading now. (Yeah yeah, pipe down there you in the back.) Instead of hype, lies, and FUD, I write about facts and things that I know about. What a concept!
Re:and how does that make you feel?
bart on 2008-01-26T09:13:44
Thanks for the vote of confidence, but the truth is actually not as noble or well thought of.
My first response was one of anger, next of sadness. It's just getting hopeless.
But indeed, I do have real trouble taking these authors seriously any more. You were right about that. I do indeed get the feeling as if they are clueless, and not just about Perl. They will need to bring in a lot more evidence to convince me of the opposite, than they would have otherwise.
