That said, I think it's an important enough feature that this module should be bundled with Perl, so that people relying on fields.pm (which was first released with Perl 5.5) and Hash::Util (Perl 5.8) won't need to install anything extra.
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Perl 5 is more maintainable than Java, and a lot more maintainable than C++.
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"Yes, around 2014 I had to maintain Perl 5 code hastily ported from Perl 4, and it was ... educational."
]]>Overall the aim is to have lots of small loosely-interconnected Perl websites, rather than everything just being on a few big websites. (Though those big sites should absolutely also still exist!)
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