Perl Needs Better Tools
Perl is in danger of becoming a fading language-new programmers are learning Java and Python in college, and companies like Google hardly use Perl at all. If you are afraid that Perl may be in danger of becoming irrelevant…
Porting Test::Builder to Perl 6
Pugs let real people write real Perl 6 code. This article presents a case study of porting Perl’s venerable Test::Builder to Perl 6.
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Independently Parsing Perl
A few years into my programming career, I found myself involved in a somewhat unusual web project for an enormous global IT company. Due to some odd platform issues, we could write the intranet half of the project only…
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A Refactoring Example
About a year ago, a person asked the Fun With Perl mailing list about some code they had written to do database queries. It’s important to note that this person was posting from an .it address; why will become…
