matt_p··on Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmersit is better than they are now, let alone how they were back then :)
matt_p··on Ask HN: Why do people consider Ruby better than Perl or vice versa?Why is this difficult to understand? my @foo = qw(1 2 3); $foo[0] = 1;you are referencing an array and returning a scalar. the sigil represents a scalar which is what is returned. A list isn't being returned, so why should the sigil represent that?