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It's an unmitigated disaster if you use it wrong - or at least if you use out of date techniques. This is also true of C - consider things like scanf and other
by mst 17y ago
It's an unmitigated disaster if you use it wrong - or at least if you use out of date techniques.
This is also true of C - consider things like scanf and other chunks of stdio that are preserved for compatibility but no developer in his right mind would use for new code.
Applications Perl5 written using MooseX::Declare and friends (see Task::Kensho for a good start at "and friends") is a much different thing to the high speed line noise-ish scripting perl that was the commonest sort a decade ago.
- berntb 17y agoAn informative comment from a really knowledgeable guy downvoted. The comment in question was polite to a newbie flame without supporting data. The flame was upvoted... like a large number of flames without arguments/motivations. I feel sad for HN. OTOH, some language communities are hilariously pathetic in their fanboyism... :-)