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Hard lessons2014-02-24 · Archive

The Fall Of Perl, The Web's Most Promising Language

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“The Perl developers I've worked with bypass the tests with CPAN by installing with --notest because it's faster, and more than once a module has …”

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The Fall Of Perl, The Web's Most Promising Language

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