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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 =…