Re^2: What Are You Doing For Perl?

If it hurts their brain to read sigils (and some people feel that way very strongly)

Heh. That was me about 10 years ago. At that time, I was doing a lot of text processing in gawk, and, when pushed, it just wasn't up to the task. I'd looked at Perl several times, but was always put off by the sigils. "it's just BASIC on steroids" were my thoughts at the time.

So, I turned to Java, but (lucky for me) it didn't have the regex support I needed.

Eventually, I bit the bullet, and started with Perl and it's fugly sigils.

It was the best decision I've ever made. It didn't take very long before I was asking myself "how the hell did I ever cope with being a C programmer? I've learnt other languages since learning Perl, but it's always Perl I return to.

Back to the original topic

I've added MooseX::Declare to the wikipedia page.

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Re^3: What Are You Doing For Perl? (now undo) by tye (Sage) on Aug 07, 2009 at 00:51 UTC
Comparing the two additions, I really think the one added by our anonymous whiner should just be removed (it didn't display `$_` correctly for me, but mostly is just sucks in comparison to the MooseX::Declare one and it seems silly to have two Perl examples on such a non-Perl-specific page). - tye	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: What Are You Doing For Perl? (now undo) by Argel (Prior) on Aug 12, 2009 at 19:24 UTC
I agree, so I was bold and moved the regular Moose example to the discussion page. As I mention on there I think if there are two Perl examples one should only use core modules. Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks	[reply]
Re^3: What Are You Doing For Perl? by Gavin (Archbishop) on Aug 07, 2009 at 10:49 UTC
"Eventually, I bit the bullet, and started with Perl and it's fugly sigils. " I guess now you think they're Funky!	[reply]