Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
tell folks about Perl
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
  • Loading branch information
@kraih
kraih committed Sep 22, 2014
1 parent 64c43d4 commit 31e9569
Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 0 deletions.
5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions README.md
View file
Expand Up @@ -93,6 +93,11 @@ __DATA__
</script>
```
Perl might be over 25 years old, but it is still an evolving language with a
yearly release cycle. We strongly recommend that you update regularly.
(Subroutine signatures)[https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/perl/pod/perlsub.pod#Signatures]
is just one of many new features.
## Want to know more?
Take a look at our excellent [documentation](http://mojolicio.us/perldoc>)!

2 comments on commit 31e9569

@oliwer
Copy link

@oliwer oliwer commented on 31e9569 Sep 22, 2014

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

IMHO, talking about signatures might not be the best choice to impress people with perl. The fact that they were added in core in 2014 might be seen as a proof that this is a language of the past. Instead you might mention things like closures, tied variables, lvalues, Moose and DBIx::Class.

@kberov
Copy link
Contributor

@kberov kberov commented on 31e9569 Sep 22, 2014

Choose a reason for hiding this comment

The reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more.

Tied variables, being new to some languages, are an old thing in Perl :).
lvalues are also comparatively old thing as the closures too :). Maybe rather it worhs mentionins that some things are long ago not a new feature in perl like closures etc... and mentioning that signatures haven't been needed so far but added only by polular demand... etc...

Please sign in to comment.