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[- Tethys]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:

> Yes, Tethys seems to have a knee-jerk "Perl is crap" reaction whenever
> the language is mentioned.

No, it's not crap at all. It may surprise you to find out that I've
been writing perl intermittently for 2 decades now. Indeed, in many
ways, I rather like it. I just detest having to work on apps written
in perl when anyone other than me has been involved. I suspect that
TMTOWTDI is at least partly responsible for this.

> No. He means that most Perl code out there is crap. Really. It's the
> truth. Look at the Perl code that most people who don't specialise in
> Perl will see - awstats, mrtg, majordomo, Matt's scripts. It's no wonder
> that people think that Perl is unreadable.

Yep, that's about it. I know full well that perl needn't be unreadable
or unmaintainable. But I also know that in the real world, it invariably
is, which IMHO makes it unsuitable as a choice of language to implement,
well, most things other than personal projects. Just MHO.

Tet

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