'subroutine signatures' is such a basic and expected feature that it isn't even named in other languages. People just assume "it has to be there"...
This is what makes people run way from Perl nowadays. I recently tried to convince someone that Perl is superior to PHP. When he saw the sub and $_ and shift he was like "I'm not touching this with a ten foot pole".
And there was nothing I could say. Compared to something like PHP 5.4, Perl looks like "mildly evolved stone age shell scripting with some chinese characters in it".
And I say this saddened because I still wish PHP wouldn't have won the "battle for the web" over Perl.
This is what makes people run way from Perl nowadays. I recently tried to convince someone that Perl is superior to PHP. When he saw the sub and $_ and shift he was like "I'm not touching this with a ten foot pole".
And there was nothing I could say. Compared to something like PHP 5.4, Perl looks like "mildly evolved stone age shell scripting with some chinese characters in it".
And I say this saddened because I still wish PHP wouldn't have won the "battle for the web" over Perl.