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abiogenesis on June 25, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly

> If you still write Perl code like it’s 1991 then maybe itcs not maintainable.

This is probably one of the issues with Perl. You can still write Python code like it's 1991 and it will still be readable and maintainable.

virtue3 on June 25, 2020 [–]

no you cant, cuz 2.x python wont work in 3.x ;)

abiogenesis on June 26, 2020 | [–]

Fair enough, but note that the discussion topic is "writing xyz code like it's 1991", which doesn't exclude using a modern compiler.

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