Great post, and I'm glad you shared your findings!

One nitpik though:

"An humble suggestion would to create here amongst the giants, a *playground* where strict and warnings are left at the gates"

That likely won't happen on many people's watch here, as use warnings; and use strict; *force* you to write proper Perl code. Essentially, it helps the code writer identify really, really simple mistakes that could cost them hours upon hours of heartache wondering why their code doesn't do what it's supposed to, and eventually quit Perl to move to something else that has these specific checks and bounds on by default.

I do agree that we need a playground, but I'd still be pushing folks to use the two mentioned pragmas.They are there to help even the most experienced Perl hackers avoid silly avoidable mistakes, and when a newcomer asks questions, it avoids a lot of delay if they run it under them.

Also, I don't know if you're aware, but Rakudo is the VM for perl6, which is quite a bit different than perl5. That said, to have a playground for that here too would be great.

In reply to Re^4: Perl vs Python revisited by stevieb
in thread Perl vs Python revisited by QuillMeantTen

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