Aside from the tools made available via CPAN, i believe there would be one benefit, and it would be the same benefit that i would receive if i could replace any language with Perl: Simply being able to handle text processing in one of the most natural ways that any language has offered me. Anytime i find myself having to implement solutions in another language, i always struggle with transforming lists of data into something new.

To be somewhat specific, i believe that URI parsing would be easier, dispatching would be more streamlined and capturing matches from regular expression operations would be less cumbersome. To be even more specific -- being able to plug in Spreadsheet CPAN modules would be heavenly, given the condition that this Javascript replacement indeed handles all of the necessary interactions with the DOM.

As for the definition of Perl kōan, i feel that it should respect the context of Zen, yielding something more along the lines of "a question, or statement, asked by Perl hackers to provoke the great doubt* and test a student's progress in programming." (borrowed from Wikipedia)

* why didn't I learn [language X] instead?!?! (because it just isn't as awesome)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to Re: Perl koan #2300 (Perl in the browser) by jeffa
in thread Perl koan #2300 (Perl in the browser) by rje

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