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Oh, I’ve got no complaints about the article or even its title. Few people learn Perl or Raku these days so it would be surprising for most people.

I thought it was interesting myself - Perl’s my go-to scripting language but I never used Raku. I might consider it next time I have a non-trivial scripting project.

You would kill billions of people just to make the rest conform to your ideals? Congratulations, you’ve graduated from communist school and will receive your diploma in the mail shortly.

I’m not sure why that’s surprising. Raku started out as Perl 6. Perl was designed primarily for use in a shell environment. Convenience features like the arguments to MAIN bit are in line with Perl philosophy.

Everyone is gifted with the ability to control their own fertility. You’re only fertile if you want to be. The only chance for pregnancy to occur is if both partners want it to.

I imagine that would cause a severe population decline, and I’m fine with that. There’s too many humans on this planet already.

It’s got a fresh Lispy flavor, almost Schemey…

That, and they might be using Object Pascal. I don’t know (I haven’t touched Pascal in thirty years) but I would not be surprised if there’s some overhead there.

Ask to borrow his lighter, light up a smoke, and then talk about classic cars. Now you’re friends.

Ah, that’s more what I expect. Of course, most of his readership will look at that top book and try to remember if Karl was the one with the horn that didn’t talk.

Ben is losing his touch if he thinks his target audience knows what a “Maoist” is.

I don’t see the implications of immortality or lack of work ethic in the small amount of the article you can see without a Forbes subscription. But regardless, remember Forbes’ target readership: business executives, investors, and people in the finance industry. Those people aren’t considered bastions of morality by the populace at large anyway.

Also remember that Forbes readers are more likely to work from home than the general public. They aren’t going to try to villify their reader base.

Forbes is all about business. Deodorant sales were down during lockdown and are recovering now that people are returning to work. That’s noteworthy if you own stock in Proctor & Gamble, for instance, and makes for an interesting bit of information even if you don’t. It makes me wonder about other industries affected by the return to work.

But if you really want to read it that way, go ahead. Just don’t be surprised if you have to repeatedly explain the extremely tenuous connection between this article and western oppression.