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Thanks for that answer, very interesting to know as someone who feels like they got into perl pretty late in the game. I do appreciate it where it works for sur

Thanks for that answer, very interesting to know as someone who feels like they got into perl pretty late in the game. I do appreciate it where it works for sure. I could definitely picture programming in perl in the 90s before people commonly implemented use strict; being a complete hellscape though

kbenson 5y ago
Yes, and it was exacerbated by mod_perl in Apache basically working by taking a Perl script/CGI and using eval to turn it into a sub, meaning any subs defined in that script (and not a module it included) to accidentally create closures easily, which really played havoc, and so people adopted... interesting workarounds[1], all in the name of performance. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11670454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11670454