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If it's seriously legacy code ... then I'd completely support you rewriting it, and I'd rather see it rewritten as not-perl than left as bad perl, no matter how

by mst 12y ago

If it's seriously legacy code ... then I'd completely support you rewriting it, and I'd rather see it rewritten as not-perl than left as bad perl, no matter how much I personally do like perl. This is why I'm glad we're not the 'most popular thing' anymore, these days the same quality of people are producing similarly awful code in node.js and go, and I feel sorry for those languages' communities because of it.

EdwardDiego 12y ago
> If it's seriously legacy code ... Well, I'm removing globally scoped maps shared across several modules and about 6000 lines of code. To be fair to the original author though, he was learning Perl as he went along, and when he learned about references he started using them in new code.