John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin continue their discussion of high-level programming languages, now focusing on why all popular languages suck in some way, then transition into a hard look at Perl, the black sheep of the dynamic language landscape.

Links for this episode:

• Back to Work #13: The Kid's Great
  
• CPAN - The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  
• Perl Myths
  
• Watch the video: Battle of the X-Planes - Hulu
  
• Watch the video: Battle of the X-Planes - YouTube
  
• Battle of the X-Planes - NOVA
  
• After Dark #15: After Hypercritical 014
  
• MacRuby
  
• Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby
  

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