It doesn't befit the HN community to be ridiculing the Perl community.
Dude!
As soon as you use the phrase "the language of the future", the mammalian-mating-ritual-inspired-games have begun!
Seriously. Different languages can and should talk about their appropriateness to different contexts. But "the future" isn't a particular context. It's more of a "I deserve more mindshare now!" statement. And while your special language might indeed deserve just that, you'll have to survive the charge of other long antlered types to prove it. Good luck in your quest but ridicule is part of the charge you'll have to survive after you enter this arena - stop frickin' whining it, just stop...
Dude!
As soon as you use the phrase "the language of the future", the mammalian-mating-ritual-inspired-games have begun!
Seriously. Different languages can and should talk about their appropriateness to different contexts. But "the future" isn't a particular context. It's more of a "I deserve more mindshare now!" statement. And while your special language might indeed deserve just that, you'll have to survive the charge of other long antlered types to prove it. Good luck in your quest but ridicule is part of the charge you'll have to survive after you enter this arena - stop frickin' whining it, just stop...