[Gllug] Perl Question - Spam Filter for NMS Form Mail

[James Laver]

On Fri, February 13, 2009 11:45 am, - Tethys wrote:
>
> So with the benefit of hindsight, which language would you have chosen
> instead? I'm the first to admit that python has many faults. But I'm
> not seeing an alternative that's clearly better. Ruby has syntax that
> doesn't play nicely with my brain *and* is horrendously slow. If you
> suggest perl will not lead to a maintenance disaster, I will laugh
> long and hard at you. PHP is worse. Beyond that, you're probably into
> the realms of esoteric[1] languages, like Haskell, Erlang, OCaml and
> so on.
>

On the other hand by suggesting perl will automatically lead to a
maintenance nightmare, you've picked yourself out as ill-advised,
inexperienced or a troll. Pick one.

--James
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