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Pointy bits (Score:1)

by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2010.02.10 17:13 (#71677) Homepage Journal

I’m tired of the message at these sorts of things being “Perl is dangerous and has lots of sharp pointy bits that’ll put your eye out… we don’t want Perl to get any more of a bad rep so stay on the trail and keep your arms in the bus”.

I find Perl is somewhat awkwardly shaped with regard to its pointy bits. It would be nice if many of them were easier to avoid. It would also be nice if it actually had more pointy bits – in some ways I find it distinctly lacking. I was very glad to find Parse::Perl [cpan.org] recently f.ex., which has scratched an itch I have had for a very very long time.

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