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by TheRevoltingX 5198 days ago
Out of all the languages I've used (C/C++/Perl/Javascript/Erlang/Objective-C/Ruby)

I like Perl the best and javascript+ruby the least.
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nona 5197 days ago
That's really surprising to me. Whenever I tried Perl it always turned into a painful mess. When I started using Ruby I felt it was the best of Perl and the best of ... Smalltalk I suppose — and I never looked back.

Maybe I'm missing something about Perl?

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berntb 5195 days ago
Ruby looks nice.

You better follow the best practices for Perl and it is like the other scripting languages. Check the Modern Perl book.

My reason to prefer Perl is because it is fun and the culture is good. The business case for Perl is CPAN. E.g., check Moose and additions like http://search.cpan.org/~flora/MooseX-Declare-0.35/lib/MooseX...

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