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Windows + Strawberry Perl - almost all CPAN modules can be installed without problems.
Re:Parrot VM v1.3.0 Released on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @03:24PM (#662324)
Re:How Perl 6 just sells itself (excerpt from IRC) on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @07:55AM (#628332)
Python 3 was developed 10 years, Perl 6 development started later and it is more complex redesign.
He forgot "use strict;". And now OO Perl programming is better done with Moose/Mouse or even MooseX::Declare.
Opera is very popular in Russia and other CIS countries.
Re:Global Warming Delusions on Sunday April 26, 2009 @07:20AM (#579897)
Wikipedia article says that after report was published, ExxonMobil stated that they would stop, but they still continued.
Re:Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast on Sunday April 19, 2009 @03:45PM (#569708)
There are modules on CPAN for different types of regex engines.
Re:The present and future of Perl in the job market on Sunday April 19, 2009 @03:40PM (#569698)
You should try CGI::Application (Titanium) - it's simple. For Perl code cleaning try Perl::Critic and perltidy.
Re:Perl 5 Is Dying on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:44PM (#397633)
If you look at TIOBE - they use bad query. Look at http://lui.arbingersys.com/ and http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?usage_statisti... for Perl programming and jobs usage statistics.
Re:Perl 5 Is Dying on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:41PM (#397629)
It's 14793 distributions and x3 modules.
Re:Perl 5 Is Dying on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:40PM (#397627)
You need to maintain readability (whitespaces) in Python, but in Perl you can do this automatically with perltidy.
Re: How I learnt to love Perl on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:38PM (#397624)
You can parse Perl with PPI (look at your nearest CPAN mirror).
Re:Having real trouble hiring coders... on Sunday December 14, 2008 @02:09PM (#397557)
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