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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by brtastic on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:39AM (#28941131)
You can, but you don't have to. With some self discipline, Perl can be very readable. The only problem is that actually requires skill and agreement in development team. Perl Best Practices helps with that.
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Re:The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated by forgetfulness on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:55PM (#28948364)
The strict guidelines followed by the one Perl shop I worked at briefly kept things very simple, but also very different from the "Modern Perl" revival that was being pushed back then, in the early 2010s.

The company I worked at maintained some ETL pipeline on behalf of Yahoo, and the strict guidelines from the client and the ones developed internally stayed you from using anything coming from CPAN.

That means that you didn't get to have function signatures, as those were a package back then, you had to declare all your arguments at the beginning of the subroutine body by taking them off the implicit parameter variables.

Programming in it wasn't crazy for sure, but it just felt like a really clunky Python. The split between the data structures that could be handled by reference and the ones that didn't was very unfortunate, Yahoo mandated that you only use the ref-type, and you had to be converting back and forth.

Well, that was part of my experience working for some 6 months at a team where strict discipline kept a big system working, but there was little upside to using Perl. The worst was the error handling in this scheme, keeping your own makeshift stack trace with backing up the error variables was a hassle.

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