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Re:Perl 5.26.0 released by mixmastamyk on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:59PM (#14463349)
And yet the two go hand in hand. Have never seen it in Python, though have never used twisted either.
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Re:Perl 5.26.0 released by pyre on Friday June 02, 2017 @09:50AM (#14469839)
> And yet the two go hand in hand.

It's a tool that can be abused. Saying that the number of tools available should be limited so that they can't be abused seems counter-productive.

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Re:Perl 5.26.0 released by mixmastamyk on Friday June 02, 2017 @06:17PM (#14473705)
The trend toward limiting ultimately counter-productive language flexibility is getting stronger, not weakening.

See static typing, golang, and functional languages.

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