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

[Nix]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, David Damerell uttered the following:
> On , 17 Nov 2001, Nix wrote:
>>I can't see why perl differs from C++ here. Indeed, perl has even *more*
>>barmy syntax than C++!
> 
> No-one sane tries to write 10^5 line idiosyncratic programs in Perl
> and then expects other people to maintain them.

The same should be true of any language. By the time you hit that size,
I'd hope you have internals docs, at least.

(Well, maybe in practice the figure is more like 5 x 10^5...)

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