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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • So how are Modern Perl and Enlightened Perl different from the other similar initiatives?

    PBP was the first real step in the direction of "modernizing" Perl. It was a book that showed people that Perl isn't a toy, and isn't a "write-only" language. (Unfortunately some of the advice in the book was just wrong, like using Class::Std. What?)

    (I have never heard of Perl Enterprise Edition, and I am no marketing expert, but somehow I don't think "pee" is the way to make Perl popular again. Although it would pa

    • PBP is an excellent book but it is the most eloquent argument against Perl (and by implication, in favour of Python / Ruby / whatever) that I have read. Pretty much the whole book is a collection of gotchas and workarounds for crufty areas of the language that should have been cleared up years ago. The semantics of 'local $x;' are unclear and can trip up many programmers? OK, here is a sticking plaster. Shouldn't it simply be fixed in the language, with a sensible deprecation timetable and warnings as P
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      • Pretty much the whole book is a collection of gotchas and workarounds for crufty areas of the language that should have been cleared up years ago.

        If you think there is any programming language that is not like this, you have not used that language long enough.

        The semantics of 'local $x;' are unclear and can trip up many programmers

        Anything can "trip up" programmers that don't know how to program. The semantics of local are quite clear. (Dynamic binding versus my's lexical binding. Not hard.)

        Shouldn't i

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