I am preparing a new version of SQL::Abstract::More, aimed principally at solving several long-standing bugs when param ‘quote_char’ is non-empty (i.e when the user wants to generate SQL of shape like "SELECT `Foo`.`col1`, … FROM `Foo` etc.").
Continuing the dev.to series about beautiful Perl features, here are the recent articles (March 2026) :
The "Beautiful Perl features" series on dev.to continues !
Since my last announcement, the following articles have been added :
I'm still hoping to attract interest from people from other programming cultures, but so far most comments came from people already in the Perl community. Let's see what the future brings us!
The more I investigate into various programming features, the more I'm impressed by the Perl vision: the initial design and later evolution into Perl5 were incredibly innovative and coherent. Raku is even more impressive, but that's another story. Regarding Perl, I am tired of reading comments on so many platforms that the language is "ugly" and "write-only" -- this is not true! If this dev.to series can help to reverse the trend, I will be happy :-)
As announced two weeks ago, I'm starting a series on dev.to about "Beautiful Perl features". The intent is to touch people outside of the Perl Community and try to convince them that Perl is not the dreadful language they imagine, by showing them facts, not opinions.
The first two posts are now online:
Hi fellow Perlists,
Now that I am retired, I have a bit more time for personal projects. One project dear to my heart would be to demonstrate strong features of Perl for programmers from other backgrounds. So I'm planning a https://dev.to/ series on "beautiful Perl features", comparing various aspects of Perl with similar features in Java, Python or Javascript.
There are many points to discuss, ranging from small details like flexibility of quote delimiters or the mere simplicity of allowing a final comma in a list, to much more fundamental features like lexical scoping and dy…
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