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@Ada Well, Perl's strength has always been that it has taken the good things from other sources and mashed them together in a way that gives it greater utility. Perl has always been a pragmatic language with a pragmatic community. Being the first at doing something doesn't mean it is the best. I prefer the quality of implementation that I get from most high-profile Perl projects than the newest shiny any day of the week. "Modern Perl" is the equivalent to Douglas Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts". It is about avoiding the bad parts of the language and embracing the good parts.
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Why Perl? Gladly I find myself needing to answer this question a lot less than I did a few years ago. Due to a combination of new talent into our community (many who came to Perl because of awesome modern projects like Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Moose and now Plack) and a renewed drive toward impro...
Dist::Zilla is just getting better and better.
Continue what you're doing RJBS, it's great!
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