Linkstew

Recently I've been looking into other languages and talking about them with friends, but we keep coming back to the same realization: for all of its warts, we're always going to always have a soft spot for Perl. Here's just one of the many perlisms I'd miss in another language:

    # create a new CGI object with three levels of masking:  
    # defaults get masked by parameters, and parameters get masked by overrides
    my $cgi = new CGI( {  %$defaults_ref,
                          %$parameters_ref,
                          %$overrides_ref,
                       } );