Sigh, the best practices book is not only about syntax. Troll much? (If you do crave bondage and discipline use Java.) There are advantages and disadvantages w

Sigh, the best practices book is not only about syntax. Troll much? (If you do crave bondage and discipline use Java.) There are advantages and disadvantages with everything. Some of Perl's advantages today are CPAN, Moose and quite extensible syntax. This is a good example of those three advantages: http://search.cpan.org/~flora/MooseX-Declare-0.35/lib/MooseX/Declare.pm http://search.cpan.org/~flora/MooseX-Declare-0.35/lib/MooseX... (Note the optional typing of method parameters and attributes.)