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There's 194,000 modules, which is probably the most of any language:
https://www.cpan.org/
> Nothing against the language but I don't know why you wouldn't use literally anything else nowadays.
Gee, let me see:
- Perl's Mojolicious web framework is probably the most powerful today.
https://mojolicious.org/
- Perl has moderate static typing with use strict;
- Perl allows forward references, unlike Javascript or Python.
The question is why would I use anything but Perl?
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There's 194,000 modules, which is probably the most of any language:
https://www.cpan.org/
> Nothing against the language but I don't know why you wouldn't use literally anything else nowadays.
Gee, let me see:
- Perl's Mojolicious web framework is probably the most powerful today.
https://mojolicious.org/
- Perl has moderate static typing with use strict;
- Perl allows forward references, unlike Javascript or Python.
The question is why would I use anything but Perl?