ironcamel

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by ironcamel 13y ago
Using Perl to crowdfund Perl, I love it. Crowdtilt is built with Perl, as is stated on their site's footer, "Powered by Perl Dancer" - https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/specify-module-version-r...
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by ironcamel 14y ago
You had asked for some examples of Perl modules that extend the core language. As was stated by @knighthacker, MooseX::Declare and Test::Class::Sugar are excellent examples: https://metacpan.org/module/MooseX::Declare https://metacpan.or
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by ironcamel 14y ago
Yes, I definitely agree that Perl is harder to learn than Python. My point was that people may not have the time or interest to learn Perl, and so when they see Perl code that they do not understand, they blame it on the language instead of
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by ironcamel 14y ago
The python example you linked to http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/06/30/python-internals-add... , which shows an example of adding an 'until' keyword, requires you to recompile the python interpreter. From your article: "After making all
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by ironcamel 14y ago
"As has been alluded to in another comment: Which other languages that compare to perl have you actually looked at?" I am very familiar with all of the languages that you mention. They are all great languages in their own right. My comment
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by ironcamel 14y ago
Those are both excellent examples. One modifies the core language syntax to allow for writing tests in a cleaner and easier way. The other one modifies the language to make writing OO code in a new way, one that will be familiar to Java dev