[Gllug] C/C++ mentor

[TreeBoy]

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.

I wish I had thought of that myself!

Although, I do find the beginnings of some larger code problematic because of 
what I find cryptic non alpha-numeric options settings and stuff.... (I do 
not think I could do that any more vaguely, but I hope you know what I mean.)

Cheers,
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