[Gllug] C/C++ mentor

[Ryan Cartwright]

TreeBoy wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 November 2006 19:41, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> Its exacerbated by the fact that the reason people commonly turn to using
>> Perl is because they *need* to do a very quick solution & thus don't have
>> the time to apply normal software engineering practices. They're basically
>> taking a concious decision to do write-once-read-never code because that's
>> the minimal effort to get the immediate job done. Business folks shouting
>> at them don't care about the long term cost - just want the shortterm win!
>>
> 
> I think that this is the key to my problems with Perl.
> 
> Inevitably, you find some code in an office environment that was a quick hack 
> to solve an immediate problem and so was not designed for maintainability.

Being his ( current ;o) ) boss and sometimes guilty of writing such
code[1] I can confirm that this is his problem :o) .

cheers
Ryan
[1] Of course I have generally gone back and rewritten it When I Had The
Time(tm)
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