Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants

Re:Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants by publicdebates on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:26PM (#46596349)

Please show me an example of Perl that looks beautiful.

I don't believe you.

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Re:Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants by perlcommunity on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @08:38PM (#46626778)

For you, https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach

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Re:Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants by apercu on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:24AM (#46633792)

It might be a generational thing.

When I started out as a sysadmin it was all shell and glue and different syntax on the 8 different flavours of *NIX I worked on between '94 and '97, then I found Perl suddenly you could actually build things that felt "real". It took me straight into web application development by '98, and I'm not sure I would have stayed in this field had it not existed (I was also working in neuro-diagnostics at the time and might have stayed there).

I saw some really elegant stuff written in Perl.

I also saw some absolutely unhinged, impossible-to-maintain garbage.

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