Re: perl

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From: Abigail
Subject: Re: perl
Date: 11:20 on 27 Dec 2006
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On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 12:07:43PM +0100, demerphq wrote:
> On 12/27/06, Earle Martin <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> >On 26/12/06, Adam Atlas <adam@xxxxx.xx> wrote:
> >> I think one major reason PHP "won" is that it's so stupidly easy that
> >> it allows bad programmers to write web apps that, although horribly
> >> ugly, at least work (in some sense of the word).
> >
> >Rule of thumb: if it's stupidly easy, it's easily stupid.
>=20
> Corollery: if its simple for newbies its going to be annoying and
> maybe crippled for old hands.


Design a language for newbies, and only newbies will use it.

(From the original: design a system fools can use, and only fools will use =
it).




Abigail

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