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Expanding the dev team is a challenge every successful Perl shop has to face. At the most recent Perl conference I ran a “Birds of Feather” (BoF) where representatives of over a dozen companies and community groups came together to exchange their experience...

Many employers have a real challenge increasing the size of their Perl team. First we’ll work out the reasons recruitment is so difficult for a Perl team, and then we’ll bounce around some ideas on how to overcome these obstacles.
According to StackOverflow Perl is one of the most highly paid programming languages...

The value of a role’s required attribute is only checked on object creation. This article provides one way of enforcing it when applying the role to an object on the fly.
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Introduction

One of the first Perl operators to learn is the "dot" concatenation operator (.) for strings. For example:
On the other hand, if you have an array of strings @arr, then you can concatenate them by joining them with an empty string in-between:
But what if you just want 10 "foo"s in a line? You might try the Python approach with 'foo' * 10 but Perl with its type conversion on the fly will try to convert 'foo' into a number and say something like:...