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Perl is a highly influential "kitchen sink" language. Languages like that see an idea that might potentially be useful or just cool, and just add it to the language because why not. Other languages with similar design philosophy (or one mig…
What gets to be included in languages and what gets pushed into some third party library is a result of history more than reason. For example pretty much every language comes with every possible trigonometric function included and preloaded…
Raku, which started its life as Perl 6, was meant as successor to Perl language. The main problem with that is that Perl 6 was officially announced in 2000, and only properly appeared in 2015, and in that time frame Perl lost most of its po…
Awk is basically a proto-Perl. As Perl was one of the most influential language of all times (JavaScript, Ruby, and PHP are all Perl's direct descendants), Awk is indirectly quite historically important. There hasn't been any good reason to…
We did Ruby, we did Python, time for a classic language you probably aren't seeing much of these days - Perl. But this isn't just a Perl episode. As doing decent session isolation on Perl side would be quite difficult (and to be honest, eve…
