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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by GuB-42 on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @08:50PM (#31267963)
> But unfortunately, some Perl devs in recent years keep thinking that what they need to do is break stuff to "modernize".

Isn't it the whole point of Raku (previously Perl 6)?

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Re:Perl, the first postmodern computer language (1999) by lizmat on Thursday May 05, 2022 @12:58PM (#31275824)
Indeed it was. But no more. The Perl community has decided to make many of the mistakes again. It is very frustrating.
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