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Why I stick with Perl

This is Jonathan Rockway's blog, where he talks about Angerwhale, Catalyst, and Everything. I noticed a discussion about Perl on Hacker News this morning. The linked article is about why the author likes Perl. As with all articles of this type, it attracted the usual "Ruby is better!!" comments. The Hacker News discussion is slightly more intelligent, arguing that Perl is ugly, that the article's

kamawada 2008/09/05

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Fuck the internal representation

I often see people (including myself) write code like this: utf8::encode($data_to_print) if utf8::is_utf8($data_to_print); This results in irritating bugs, because it's incorrect and doesn't even make sense. Perl can store text as either latin-1 or utf8 internally. For a string like ほげ, the internal representation will be utf8, because you definitely can't represent Japanese in latin-1. However (a

kamawada 2008/03/22

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Catalyst Tips: Part 1

Posted on 2007-10-10 (水) at 6:57 am by Jonathan T. Rockway Posted in: Catalyst I haven't had much to blog about recently, but here are a few tidb its you might enjoy while I think of something more interesting to write about. Component->config is write-only People seem to forget this all the time. Good use of config: package MyApp::Model::Something; use base 'Catalyst::Model'; __PACKAGE__->config(