The peril of laziness lost(bcantrill.dtrace.org)
420 points by gpm | 136 comments
Bryan Cantrill blog essay on Larry Wall's programmer virtue of laziness and the risks to software design when that laziness is lost.
#perl on Hacker News
4 stories tagged perl, newest first.
Perl's decline was cultural(beatworm.co.uk)
351 points by todsacerdoti | 396 comments
Blog post arguing that Perl's decline stemmed from its conservative, reactionary community culture rather than technical shortcomings, from a former mod_perl developer.
Raku: A language for gremlins(buttondown.email)
355 points by azhenley | 180 comments
Hillel Wayne's Computer Things newsletter post describing the Raku programming language as a quirky language 'by gremlins, for gremlins'.
A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)(noulakaz.net)
331 points by tambourine_man | 86 comments
A 2007 blog post explaining how the Perl regular expression /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ checks whether a number is prime using unary representation.