Perl: Love it, or hate it, but don't ignore it

Re:Perl: Love it, or hate it, but don't ignore it by lele on Friday November 27, 2009 @03:37AM (#963612)

I have been loving Perl until I knew sound languages. Then I realized all the time it made me waste.

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Re:Perl: Love it, or hate it, but don't ignore it by jrockway on Friday November 27, 2009 @05:57AM (#963716)

Would you care to share some of these realizations?

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Re:Perl: Love it, or hate it, but don't ignore it by mst on Friday November 27, 2009 @09:38AM (#963927)

It's extremely easy to pick up poor practices in Perl5 that make the language appear to be unsound even though it can be used extremely elegantly.

You might want to have a look at the libraries that are part of Task::Kensho to get a better feel for how 21st century perl is supposed to be written - at the very least, you might find some ideas to steal for your "sound" language of choice :)

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