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Yeah, that was not my point. These aren't but idiosyncrasies of Perl's design, and to model itself on constructs which evolved without direction and which take years to master, jus…

'Knowing Perl' is a rather hard thing to do when the list of completely ad-hoc implicit variables and hidden context-sensitive surprises is seemingly endless.

I think mattacular wrote about the run-of-the-mill programming blog that gets submitted to HN. They feel more substantial than one of those spammy "125 free icon sets that'll turn …

Care to give an alternative explanation to the contents at the other side of the URL I gave?

A well known and tested approach, sum types (tagged unions), would have been way better, but it was cast aside because the designers were apparently unaware of the improvements to …

Isn't the ecosystem always trotted out while defending PHP, as well as its 'accessibility' to amateurs? Well, those amateurs are part of the PHP ecosystem, and you'll have to put u…

Who said anything about coolness? Seriously, why do people think that just because all languages are Turing complete, any further discussion is just a popularity contest?

Not exactly. You see, you have to define new types from scratch with your approach. With Haskell's approach, you just have to use the Maybe parametric type, which just needs to be …