Re: on Perl

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:16:53 -0700
John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:33:14 -0000 (UTC)
Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:
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There are plenty of fields I haven't worked in that I would also
consider serious eg agriculture, automotive, energy.
 
Games arn't on that list.

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Very well, then! That leaves us with the larger questions:
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* By what logic do you argue that a language which is commonly used in
 fields which are (by your own admission) "pretty big" but (in your
 assessment) not "serious" is therefore "pretty irrelevant in most
 language discussions?"

The amount of code written in the language. I doubt game scripting amounts
to much in the scheme of things.

* What about all of the other non-game applications people have cited?
 Are none of these "serious" by your standards?

Don't remember them tbh. A serious application IMO is something that
impacts society as a whole in that if it didn't exist we'd be in trouble
or something that benefits a persons ability to live their life.
If games vanishes some teenagers and kidults might get a bit annoyed for
a while before they went outside and played with a ball but society would
carry on as before.

Are you expecting to be taken seriously?

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Were *you,* when you decided to start throwing around terms like
"aspie?" (2009 called, they want their insult back.)

Its a very relevant insult given these days every socially awkward moron
decides they're on the spectrum so they can have some kind of disadvantage
kudos.