Best syntax modules so far

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

Can we list down the best must have syntax plugins created till today. The list must be generic enough to cover.

1. Generic programming stuff available in all other languages of Perl's class

2. Sweetest syntactic sugar.

3. Stable and well tested.

Is there a way we can use all of them while writing least boilerplate code.

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Re: Best syntax modules so far by jethro (Monsignor) on Mar 15, 2011 at 12:21 UTC
Moose. And "use v5.10.0;". As far as I'm concerned the list is complete now since TMTOWTDI guarantees that syntactic sugar is in oversupply in perl	[reply]
Re: Best syntax modules so far by ambrus (Abbot) on Mar 15, 2011 at 14:02 UTC
HQ9++ offers generic programming abstractions unparalleled by any other language, so that's for number 1. There's a perl implementation too. For number 2, the best is definitely Lingua::Romana::Perligata Update: fixed the broken link to the perl implementation of the HQ9++ language.	[reply]
Re: Best syntax modules so far by JavaFan (Canon) on Mar 15, 2011 at 14:53 UTC
There's no generic best. Probably not even a generic good. Depending on the task at hand, and the person(s) doing the task, you'll get a different list. Moose for instance was discussed recently on the p5p mailing list, and if one thing became clear is that Moose is more popular/useful in the "web development echo chamber" (not my term) than say, Unix system programming.	[reply]
Re: Best syntax modules so far by Anonymous Monk on Mar 15, 2011 at 12:27 UTC
No such things	[reply]