Unfortunately, I've never been able to go beyond the core functionality as 99% of the Perl code I write has to be maintainable by non-Perl-loving programmers.

However, I have noticed a tendency to move away from the C++/Java style many people start with and fully embrace map, grep, hashes, and the like. This, I would say, is a very different dialect than C++Perl or JavaPerl. I would say it's almost a different language, in the way that an OO purist would use C++ differently than a procedural purist. Same language, different dialect.

Good meditation! ++!

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