Re: Perl::Improved Volume 0, Number 0

[Gunth]

The thing you don't understand is Perl is about choice. It doesn't force you to start at 0,

$[ = 1;

but does by default because the people that coded Perl coded it in a language that does, and many, many other languages start at 0 as well. Why change it and confuse people? and you can create longer verbose functions instead of well defined shell commands,

sub file_exists { -X shift }

but people are use to it already.

And probably for anything else you write in your rants you can do too with no difficulty.

Perl is a great language, but there's no need to sway from well defined coding principals. If we do then it would be much more complicated and complex than it is now.

Everything you are claiming at criticism of Perl are actually benefits. Perl inherits from a lot of computer languages and principals while still being unique, making it very powerful and easy to learn after being around the Unix OS for a while.