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590,000 lines of changes is 30x as many lines as Lua's entire source distribution. Just thought I'd mention this in light of yesterday's discussion about simpl

• ars 14y ago
  The number includes cpan modules, not just the core language.
• gosub 14y ago
  By the definition from Rich Hickey, lua seems to be optimized for simplicity while perl is for easiness.
  • kabdib 14y ago
    I've been trading-in my habit of writing one-off Perl scripts for writing them in C#. I just clone a template file containing enough to get a "while(<>) { ... }" equivalent and a vanilla regular expression going -- ninety percent of what my one-offs need -- and I'm off and coding. The result is something that may or may not be faster, or clearer . . . but it's a whole lot easier to debug when something goes wrong. I learned Perl about a decade ago, and have never felt that plumbing its depths (references were about as sophisticated as I got) would pay off. (I won't get into what I think is broken about Perl, because that discussion definitely won't pay off :-) )
    • bloblaw 14y ago
      The open-source visual IDE written in Perl, called Padre, has an excellent integrated debugger. http://padre.perlide.org/ http://padre.perlide.org/. With the latest version of Padre, I find debugging Perl scripts to be as easy as C#. Or you can use the commercial Komodo editor which has another high quality Perl debugger.