[Gllug] Office software -> c/c++ debate

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 19 Nov 2001, Simon Stewart wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 12:49:57PM +0000, David Damerell wrote:
>>No-one sane tries to write 10^5 line idiosyncratic programs in Perl
>>and then expects other people to maintain them.
>Does 10^4 count? It's not the line count that matters, it's how well
>the code is structured and how idiosyncatic your style is that matters
>more,

Well, quite. All I'm saying is;

1) It's easier to write idiosyncratic programs in languages like Perl
and C++ that have multiple ways of doing most tasks.
2) It's not so big a problem in Perl, because no-one expects the
results to be maintainable.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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