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Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 10:31 PM UTC
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Comment #46185778
Regarding restrictions vs. perfect freedom, I think it's also about trade-offs, implementation quality, etc. Typescript has very easy and well-defined escape hatches. Conversely, R…

Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC
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Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 12:11 AM UTC
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Comment #46177908
As someone who doesn't really know neither Perl nor PHP, PHP is more of a domain-specific EDSL than a mainstream programming language. One of the few insights in the blog post that…

Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 12:09 AM UTC
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Comment #46177879
Sorry for this repetition, but how popular was/is monkeypatching in Perl?

Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 12:06 AM UTC
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Comment #46177861
How popular was/is monkeypatching in Perl?

Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 12:04 AM UTC
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Sun, Dec 07, 2025, 12:03 AM UTC
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Comment #46177806
Some of the reasons why I never bothered with Perl was that I had the perception that it, like Ruby, encouraged mutating and modifying classes on the fly, willy-nilly. And the lack…

Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 11:58 PM UTC
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Comment #46177707
Reasoning through analogies?

Sat, Dec 06, 2025, 11:48 PM UTC