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…