[Gllug] More Microsoft patents

[Nick Mailer]

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 17:29, chris.wareham at btopenworld.com wrote:
> Nick Mailer <nickm at positive-internet.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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 had a financial interest in Perl - I made a very profitable living as a
> contractor working on Perl code. However, I have scratched Perl from my CV
> because there is fuck all job satisfaction in fixing endless streams of
> Perl gibberish produced by talentless muppets. Unless your trying to be ironic
> then you need to acquaint yourself with the sheer volume of crap Perl code out
> there. Meanwhile I'll happily carry on coding in "obsolete" C and "too slow"
> Java.

I have written my whole company's systems on Perl. I write good Perl.
I have seen lots of bad Perl.
I have also seen lots of bad Java and bad C.
If you want to see gibberish produced by talentless muppets, I suggest you add PHP to your CV.


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