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Re:Perl is 25 years old today by bcoates on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @11:28AM (#4938182)
I don't get what the issue is, I don't even know Perl and it seems pretty straightforward to me: Carp is a library with a set of mnemonic assertion functions for libraries to signal usage errors committed by their callers.

Do people just prefer one function with a bunch of fiddly little enums or something?

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Re:Perl is 25 years old today by meaty on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @05:10AM (#4941940)
In my case I prefer sensible pragmatic names with some sort of hierarchy rather than random words from the dictionary.
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Re:Perl is 25 years old today by IheartApplesDix on Tuesday December 18, 2012 @05:16PM (#4939901)
People prefer what they've already learned.
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