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The 1999 'postmodern' talk says: "Perl is humble. It doesn’t try to tell the programmer how to program. It lets the programmer decide what rules today, and what sucks. It doesn’t have any theoretical axes to grind." That's the Perl I want... not the Perl that says "your code will adhere to strict and warnings no matter what." I have not mixed up the "Guac" talk with the Perl7 talk, but I fear it has provided insight into what Sawyer thinks is good and not-so-good about Perl syntax, and I don't like what I heard. Especially on the eve of leading a set of breaking changes to the language, I don't like to hear the leader saying how much he never liked a lot of perl-unique quirks and then naming a severe subset "Standard Perl." Further, I prefer a leader with enough awareness to understand how confusing it will be to call something he produces "Standard Perl." Bareword filehandles are on the chopping block in the Perl 7 Announcement, and there it says except MAYBE the standard filehandles. I don't see how you can definitively tell people they are excepted like built-ins, unless you have more information. Strict and warnings are also discussed in the Perl 7 announcement. I did not mix anything up there. It is true I do not spend a lot of time participating on forums--my other post here was in 2016--, if that disqualifies my thoughts here so be it. In reply to Re^3: Modernizing the Postmodern Language?
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