Re:Why Perl?
by Mithaldu on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @01:08PM
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Didn't read all of it yet, but one thing i can answer right now:
The modules you mentioned have been superceded by better ones like XML::Twig, Config::INI::Reader/Writer and HTML::Treebuilder (and likely a lot more that i don't recall presently). Also, those bugs you point at are of medium amount, and not exactly crippling. Similar libraries in other languages likely have similar bugs, but they're less known because there's no unified bug tracker.
The modules you mentioned have been superceded by better ones like XML::Twig, Config::INI::Reader/Writer and HTML::Treebuilder (and likely a lot more that i don't recall presently). Also, those bugs you point at are of medium amount, and not exactly crippling. Similar libraries in other languages likely have similar bugs, but they're less known because there's no unified bug tracker.
> Unicode Support is horrible
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/ms...
Really now?