Toward a Modern::Perl - Modern Perl Programming

If my thesis is correct -- that much of the work done on the Perl language, the Perl culture, and its ecosystem including CPAN in the past ten years has made the language easier to use and Perl programs more maintainable -- then Perl fans have a lot of work to do to overcome the weight of bad code and creaky tutorials found in the wild. Browse PerlMonks for ten minutes, and you'll see that many pe