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It seems there are two Perl communities. One is the horde who have been playing code golf and writing horrifying crap since 1987, and the other is the Modern Pe
by prodigal_erik 16y ago
It seems there are two Perl communities. One is the horde who have been playing code golf and writing horrifying crap since 1987, and the other is the Modern Perl guys who are actually trying to create a robust language (except that it'll be based on Perl, for reasons that escape me). The last time I saw Moose come up, I was told that only 5% of CPAN has adopted it to date, so I think the influence of Modern Perl on the mainstream has been overstated.
- perigrin 16y ago5% of 21,163 is still over 1000 modules. That is nothing to sneeze at. For a module that is only four and a half years old, that is an average of about 4 new modules a week published to CPAN that depend on Moose. If you look at the time and effort that goes into releasing a package, figure at least 8 hours (one day of work) that is conservatively $200 of effort minimum? So would you be interested in a company that averaged four "sales" a week worth a couple hundred dollars each, sustained over four and a half years? And that is just the code that escaped to CPAN.
- phaylon 16y agoYes, let's change all OO CPAN modules to use a new library, just for the heck of it. Let's not care that all of these libraries work great and are used in production. Transition takes time, welcome to software development.