in reply to It's so easy to become complacent.

I know that it is not always possible to $WORK with Perl, and you highlight why.

The only thing I don't use Perl for is when I want to do real threading, in this case I use a scripting language called Qore. On the surface it is very much like Perl, but like what you say about Lua - the sharp corners and really nice things Perl has are missing.

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Re^2: It's so easy to become complacent.
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 22, 2016 at 22:47 UTC
    when I want to do real threading, in this case I use a scripting language called Qore.

    Thanks for mentioning it. A quick scan of the documentation -- particularly with regard to threading -- and it looks to be a very sensible design.

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