I think you misunderstood the idea of the series. After I do Hello World and FizzBuzz, I'm mainly looking at what's unique and interesting about each language, and Perl has a ton of that, so I picked a few things Perl does which are really unusual. Talking about lexical scoping and closures and reference counting etc. would be completely boring, as so many other languages do that.
Talking about Perl OO system would actually be super interesting, especially its unique features like changing class of an object on the fly (which is absolutely used behind the scenes, for example by URI.pm); however I think that would take a bit too long to explain.
I'm not sure why you list these features are widely avoided, as they're used all over the standard library, and many common Perl libraries; Perl is also a very popular code golfing language. Maybe nontrivial flip flops are rare.
I generally only cover base language, and only go outside standard library if it's missing some core functionality I need (so far most commonly JSON). Covering libraries and frameworks would really not fit the post size I'm going for.
Of all the languages, the only exception to the one post per language rule so far has been Raku which is getting 3; Perl actually would have enough cool stuff to deserve a few more episodes, but most of that cool stuff (like Perl style regular expressions) is already used by a lot of other languages.
I mostly agree with the point about avoiding the review being boring. However, Perl is a different beast. I think you did a pretty good job reviewing the base language quirks, but with CPAN modules it pretty much becomes "make your own language, as long as it has sigils". I think that's the most interesting aspect of perl, and surely unique as hell.
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I think you misunderstood the idea of the series. After I do Hello World and FizzBuzz, I'm mainly looking at what's unique and interesting about each language, and Perl has a ton of that, so I picked a few things Perl does which are really unusual. Talking about lexical scoping and closures and reference counting etc. would be completely boring, as so many other languages do that.
Talking about Perl OO system would actually be super interesting, especially its unique features like changing class of an object on the fly (which is absolutely used behind the scenes, for example by URI.pm); however I think that would take a bit too long to explain.
I'm not sure why you list these features are widely avoided, as they're used all over the standard library, and many common Perl libraries; Perl is also a very popular code golfing language. Maybe nontrivial flip flops are rare.
I generally only cover base language, and only go outside standard library if it's missing some core functionality I need (so far most commonly JSON). Covering libraries and frameworks would really not fit the post size I'm going for.
Of all the languages, the only exception to the one post per language rule so far has been Raku which is getting 3; Perl actually would have enough cool stuff to deserve a few more episodes, but most of that cool stuff (like Perl style regular expressions) is already used by a lot of other languages.
I mostly agree with the point about avoiding the review being boring. However, Perl is a different beast. I think you did a pretty good job reviewing the base language quirks, but with CPAN modules it pretty much becomes "make your own language, as long as it has sigils". I think that's the most interesting aspect of perl, and surely unique as hell.