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• Commented on Why is the latest version of Devel::ptkdb not on CPAN?
  Looks like a fork. Andrew Page hasn't touched this in years. I spent the better part of the spring doing some massive updates to Devel::ptkdb and tried to contact Andrew to coordinate an update. I contacted him once and then...
• Commented on I love pre-modern Perl and so should you, my introduction
  Here's my decision tree: If you are the only one developing the code, use whatever makes you more comfortable. If you have an enterprise-level system and need to coordinate a lot of developers, use Moose/Moo as functionality dictates. If you...

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• David Shultz commented on I love pre-modern Perl and so should you, my introduction

  I'm completely with you Matthew, I agree that each person/team should pick the tools they are comfortable with and knowledgeable about.

  I haven't had any issues with C::MM myself in relation to list vs scalar context of arrays but that doesn't mean it's not an issue for many others.

  My primary goal is to blog about current solutions to current problems without Moo(se), not because there is anything wrong with Moo(se), simply that Moo(se) is far from the only way to solve these problems. Moo(se) already gets more then it's own time in the sun, I just want to remind peopl…

• Zak B. Elep commented on I love pre-modern Perl and so should you, my introduction

  This evokes a comment in the Camel book I've read years ago: you could be speaking baby perl or modern/advanced perl, but in the end you're still speaking perl. I think the modern perl "movement" isn't so much a movement to change the way we use perl but rather the way we think with perl. Like natural language, perl isn't so big on syntax or language extension, but on nuance and overall "whipupititude" on solving the problems concerned; the way solutions have been thought may have changed, but the way we express it in the language we love is largely unchanged.
  

• Toby Inkster commented on I love pre-modern Perl and so should you, my introduction

  If it's a daemon, expected to run for days (or weeks, or months, or even years), then a 3-5 second start up time is hardly much of a penalty to pay. In fact, 30-50 seconds would probably be tolerable. (And still faster than Tomcat!)

  Moose takes a while to get started, but once it's running it tends to be very fast and pretty solid. (Much like an actual moose.)

  Moose's constructors and accessors are generally faster than any you'd write by hand. (Mouse's even more so, thanks to lots of crazy XS.)

• ddumont commented on Why is the latest version of Devel::ptkdb not on CPAN?

  Looks like latest ptkdb won't stay out of CPAN for long: Matthew got co-maintainer status of ptkdb on CPAN and he's talking with Marco Marazzi to re-use the improvements done on the version of ptkdb hosted on sourceforge. For more details, see the comments in this blog