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Re:Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? by knighthacker on Friday August 31, 2012 @07:30PM (#4462132)
+1

It is so hard to know that @ means array and % means a hash (key/value pair) haha.

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Re:Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? by slurgfest on Friday August 31, 2012 @10:36PM (#4462494)
It's not that hard to know the types of the variables you created without punctuation in the identifiers, either.
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Re:Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? by dllthomas on Saturday September 01, 2012 @03:14AM (#4462926)
Well, it's not just the type of the variable but also how you're treating it - world's most concise cast...

Also, it means one doesn't have to dodge keywords in naming their variables. Doesn't count for a lot but is nice.

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Re:Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt? by prawks on Friday August 31, 2012 @11:37PM (#4462589)
>you created

Agreed. However, working for a company with more than one developer...

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