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08-09-2019

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I'm not a great perl hacker either. It was my first Scripting Language after bash in Linux ~20 years ago. The syntax is uncomfortable to me. It's quite fast. It's a usable general purpose scripting language, that scales a lot beyond shell scripting. I hadn't been using it for real work for a long time now.

I would not say it is a must learn. It has some unique points in it's purpose of using. So I will probably use it, if those points matter.

- great stability of syntax (stick to version ~5.00x if you like to have that)
- great availability(still available in the newest systems)

Some people still use it for current code(e. g. Proxmox, great open source virtualization management solution and mail filtering solution).

If you like to generate good code, you may do in perl too(or even the opposite - if you like).

The version number rised considerably in the last years and wikipedia mentions that features of the not-really-used perl 6 are being integrated zu perl 5 step by step. Maybe those features are worth a look?

Perl 5 version history - Wikipedia

Its Anti-Hype atmosphere appears kind of cool to me.

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MojoMojo::Formatter::WikipediaLink(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   MojoMojo::Formatter::WikipediaLink(3pm)

NAME

       MojoMojo::Formatter::WikipediaLink - Linked Wikipedia by writing {{wikipedia:<lang> <word>}}

DESCRIPTION

       Normally, to hyperlink to the Wikipedia, you'd write:

	   [wikipedia Hello](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello)

       This plugin lets you write just

	   {{wikipedia Hello}}

       not just Link to Wikipedia in English page, you can use many languages

	   {{wikipedia:ja a~XXa~XXa~XXa~XXa~XX}}
	   {{wikipedia:fr Salut}}

       Actually, if you wrote this without a language ex.{{wikipedia Foo}}, select location of Wikipedia Link is getting default-language setting
       of MojoMojo.

METHODS

   format_content_order
       The WikipediaLink formatter has no special requirements in terms of the order it gets run in, so it has a priority of 17.

   format_content
       Calls the formatter. Takes a ref to the content as well as the context object.

   process
       Here the actual formatting is done.

SEE ALSO

       MojoMojo and Module::Pluggable::Ordered.

AUTHORS

       Dai Okabayashi, "bayashi at cpan . org"

LICENSE

       This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2010-05-23				   MojoMojo::Formatter::WikipediaLink(3pm)