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amenbrother

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    Comment #7867564

    Thanks for the 'use warnings;' suggestion. Keep in mind the subject here is maintainence - where small changes with minimal impact to production is the rule and the work is often d…

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    Comment #7867473

    Thanks - I'll try to remember that if I ever have to touch perl again.

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    Comment #7867100

    Those languages are far more maintainable and their communities have far more respect for practices which prevent programming errors. I don't particularly care how many forms of eq…

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    Comment #7867058

    There are neat things on your roadmap but I'm actually more curious about the stuff you aren't interested in doing with this. Can you say more about the anti-feature set?

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    Comment #7866974

    I was recently asked to add some trivial code to the end of an existing unmaintained Perl script written long ago. Something along the lines of $x = `cat FOO 2>/dev/null`; if ($x =…