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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by benbristow on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:06PM (#28936623)
A reasonable syntax, try/catch/finally built in, subroutine signatures as a default feature (not 'experimental') and a sane class system would be a start.
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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by nrdvana on Thursday October 21, 2021 @12:33AM (#28940299)
The class/package system is actually my favorite part of the language, and the reason I put up with the syntax warts. It goes one step better than JavaScript by putting methods and attribute storage into separate namespaces, and supports multiple inheritance, and lets you modify the method tables on the fly.
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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by chris1993 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:06PM (#28937403)
I think that describes Perl v7 pretty well.
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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by benbristow on Thursday October 21, 2021 @08:53AM (#28943693)
It describes other Perl-like languages like Python, Ruby and PHP pretty well too.

Why would I want to go back to Perl when I could use a language that’s more popular and well-established now?

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