amenbrother

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   by amenbrother 12y ago

   Thanks for the 'use warnings;' suggestion. Keep in mind the subject here is maintainence - where small changes with minimal impact to production is the rule and the work is often done by programmers with incomplete knowledge and
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   by amenbrother 12y ago

   Thanks - I'll try to remember that if I ever have to touch perl again.
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   by amenbrother 12y ago

   Those languages are far more maintainable and their communities have far more respect for practices which prevent programming errors. I don't particularly care how many forms of equality or comparison a language has as long as the comp
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   by amenbrother 12y ago

   There are neat things on your roadmap but I'm actually more curious about the stuff you aren't interested in doing with this. Can you say more about the anti-feature set?
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   by amenbrother 12y ago

   I was recently asked to add some trivial code to the end of an existing unmaintained Perl script written long ago. Something along the lines of $x = `cat FOO 2>/dev/null`; if ($x == "foo") { system("