Mark Gardner

Perl 6 was renamed to Raku in 2019. It’s a different language, and although I’ve written about integrating it with Perl (here and here), it hasn’t been my focus.

There is a great list of resources on learning Raku on the official site.

I don't think that technical debt goes unaddressed because "engineers think feature work is more important." Rather, it's usually the business (including product management) that views feature work as more important. Engineers are just following their direction.

Be sure to follow me then, I post every week!

As I mentioned in the article, the perlstyle documentation page and the perlcritic and perltidy tools go a long way towards improving both readability and the adoption of best practices. They also settle arguments and merge conflicts among developer teams by instituting organizational policies and then tying them to commit hooks or author unit tests.

Hi, I'm Mark Gardner from Houston, Texas, and I write about Perl.

I'd like to recommend a new writer that followed me here from another blogging site, Curtis Poe. He's only got one article here so far, so encourage him to post more! He doesn't just write about nitty-gritty coding topics; he also writes about design patterns, career strategy, and project management.