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Re: Poll ideas quest 2025

by talexb (Chancellor)
on Mar 01, 2025 at 20:39 UTC ( [id://11164110]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to poll ideas quest 2025

When you first encountered Perl, which feature amazed you the most?

  • Hashes
  • The built-in memory management (no more malloc and free calls!)
  • Autovivification
  • The cool testing infrastructure
  • The community/the conferences
  • Other features (list below)

Alex / talexb / Toronto

For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.

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Re^2: Poll ideas quest 2025
by choroba (Cardinal) on Mar 01, 2025 at 20:50 UTC
  • Regexes

    map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]
Re: poll ideas quest 2025
by roho (Bishop) on Mar 02, 2025 at 05:43 UTC
    o DBI module and friends for database interface

    (Edit) Sorry, this reply should be under Talexb's post.

    Reparented by Athanasius

    "It's not how hard you work, it's how much you get done."

Re^2: Poll ideas quest 2025
by hippo (Archbishop) on Mar 01, 2025 at 22:55 UTC
    • DWIM
Re^2: Poll ideas quest 2025
by Tux (Canon) on Mar 03, 2025 at 15:58 UTC
    • The off-line manuals
    • Conversion awk -> perl, sed -> perl and other tools
    • Error messages
    • Readability / maintanability
    • Versatility (Swiss Chainsaw)
    • The Community (help availability)
    • All of the above

    Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
      while perlmonks.com-connection was refused, perlmonks.org did work. does this answer your question sufficiently?
      (my previous writing lacks formatting because it was stripped ...)
Re^2: Poll ideas quest 2025
by pfaut (Priest) on May 10, 2025 at 17:06 UTC

    I've lost too many brain cells since I started using perl to remember why I started using perl (of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.) It was probably the string handling or report capabilities (format) or maybe the ability to get a lot done with just a little code.

    90% of every Perl application is already written.
    dragonchild

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