stevan_little

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1. 1.▲
   by stevan_little 13y ago

   Actually Perl 5 is older then Java by about a year (yes, Perl had OO support before Java even left the lab). But Perl itself is much older then Java, by several years.
2. 2.▲
   by stevan_little 15y ago

   Just so you know, there is somewhat of a movement afoot in Perl these days. Many of us long term Perl programmers know well the dangers of TIMTOWTDI. So we have created TIMTOWTDI-BSCINABTE (pronounced TimToady Bicarbonate) and stands for "B
3. 3.▲
   by stevan_little 15y ago

   Yes, but this is an optional part of the base package and one of the places in Moose where you pay for how much you use it. In the end, you can simply comment out the type check if it is causing performance issues. I would be interested to
4. 4.▲
   by stevan_little 15y ago

   Very odd, because for regular methods, Moose does not wrap anything. There is a compile time penalty for Moose overall, but for instance, the Moose generated accessors typically benchmark very well in comparison. They will start to slow dow
5. 5.▲
   by stevan_little 15y ago

   BULLSHIT! You are jrockway, shooting from the hip is your trademark. As for context to this comment, tl;dr.
6. 6.▲
   by stevan_little 17y ago

   That article is kinda slanted and pretty out of date. I suggest taking it with a very large grain of salt.
7. 7.▲
   by stevan_little 17y ago

   Clearly you've never heard of gems!