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From: Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
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Subject: Re: on Perl
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 08:57:08 -0000 (UTC)
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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:
>
>> 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.
>
>Very well, then! That leaves us with the larger questions:
>
>* 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?
>
>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.