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I'm probably going to tick off my fellow devs, but ...

So many times I hear "we need this weird feature that most languages don't have or make very hard to do." Almost every time I see that, the problem space they're dealing with is eye-gougingly bad code that they're trying to work around.

Guess what I'm doing today? Using obscure features in Perl to dynamically rewrite some eye-gougingly bad code.

So yeah, we need those weird features due to legacy. 😢

Curtis "Ovid" Poe (he/him)

My real horror in all of this is that my team and I are effectively re-implementing aspect-oriented programming, a paradigm I constantly warn people against.