[Gllug] More Microsoft patents

[Nick Mailer]

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:04, rich at annexia.org wrote:

> 
> I don't really want this to degenerate into a language war, and
> I actually agree with most of what you say, except one thing: Perl
> is really not a "write only" language. Copyright law unfortunately
> prevents me from reproducing sections of the schoolmaster.net code-
> base, but suffice to say it was several 100,000s of lines of well
> written, fully documented Perl code written by a team of up to 10
> coders.

Exactly. The cheap soundbite dismissal of Perl was instigated by those
with vested financial interests in belittling it, and is largely spouted
by those sheep who believe a carefully-planted corporate opinion is
their own unique insight.

I have seen plenty of obfuscated, ghastly Java and JSP, and I have seen
plenty of beautifully written, elegant Perl. As with English, what
matters is not the language but those who use it.


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