Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly

Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by proverbialbunny on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:36PM (#23634158)

Keep in mind TDD wasn't really invented yet, so it's understandable.

Also, CPAN had better libraries than pip did all the way up until I last used Perl in 2015. Ofc, it depends on what you're doing. My point is, there was a reason to use Perl once upon a time ago.

The alternatives back then were PHP, C, C++ (the old bad kind), BASIC, assembly, FORTRAN, and others like Smalltalk. Seeing this, it's understandable why Java took the world by storm the same way Perl did.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by cutler on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @06:02PM (#23634377)

I don't know about TDD specifically but we have the Perl community to thank for setting the bar for rigorous testing back in the ealry 2000s with the numerous Test:: modules on CPAN.

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Re:Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly by snapdangle on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:12AM (#23638109)

Perl and CPAN definitely do not get enough flowers for their contribution to TDD.

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