Is the pro/con "Modern Perl" divide a symptom of Steve Yegge's "software political axis"?
I haven't followed all of it, but the discussions about whether or not the "Modern Perl" tools like Moose are a good thing reminds me of Steve Yegge's essay about the "software political axis." If you haven't read it, I'll give you the super short summary: he says that a major source of tension between developers is their differences in risk tolerance, as seen in attitudes toward such things as type checking, adding new syntax to a language on the fly, well-defined schemas vs NoSQL, QA cycles before code rollout,…