By Jesse Luehrs (‎doy‎)
Date: Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:45
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: perl philosophy rant timtowtdi

Perl's motto is TIMTOWTDI (There's more than one way to do it), and it has been a huge benefit to the development of both the language and the community. Over time, however, we have moved away from this philosophy in certain aspects; for instance "There's more than one way to write tests! But if you're writing tests, use TAP." or "There's more than one syntax available for writing Perl! But keep it within your lexical scope."

These changes have been a necessary and important part of the evolution of Perl into a more robust and mature language, but they often aren't explicitly discussed. This talk will cover the kinds of changes TIMTOWTDI has undergone, and why these changes are a good thing for the future of Perl.

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