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Mojolicious 2.0: Modern Perl For the Web
Kvorg writes "After a year of rapid development, newly released version 2.0 of Mojolicious, the new generation real-time Perl web framework written by Sebastian Riedel and many others, offers a versatile and elegant web framework that is as good at web scraping and simple scripts as it is at building complex, interactive real-time applications with HTML5 and websockets. It supports easy 0-dependency installs, excellent developer mode, multiple deployment scenarios, many CPAN modules and plugins."
Every time I look at a script I've written that's at least a year old, it's like the first time I've ever seen the code.
If you understand your comment and know how to write perl, you don't really need to understand how a cryptic line does something - it's faster to rewrite it from scratch to do what you want.
That assumes that the comment correctly describes what the code intends to do. This is a very big assumption to make and I've worked on numerous projects where the comments were significantly different from what the code did. Looking through the change logs, this situation always arises because someone updated the code but didn't bother to update the comments.
This brings me to my point: The code doesn't lie.
If you can't understand a piece of code, you're going to be working off assumptions. Refactoring code based on assumptions is dangerous unless you have very rigorous unit tests. I've found that the level of code obfuscation is negatively correlated with the quality (or even presence!) of unit tests. YMMV.