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[Richard Huxton]

Jose Luis Martinez wrote:
> What I have seen out in the field is that people have a perception
> that Perl lends itself more easily to create unmaintainable code.
> 
> It is a reputation that may  be difficult to shake and it may be
> spreading beyond the realm of Perl wizardry.

Usually of course, it's unmaintainable code that was put together in a
couple of days and has been running the website/rotating logs for a
decade now.

I've got a tiny little site that I ported from using flat-files and
"mSQL" (and that's not a typo for all you youngsters) to DBD over mysql.
I ported it some time around the millenium, and it's largely a bunch of
2KB CGI scripts that were written by someone who'd obviously spent a
weekend learning Perl. In its defence, the client is happy enough that
they've never wanted to pay for a major update.

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  Richard Huxton
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