Re: Perl

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From: Chris Nandor
Subject: Re: Perl
Date: 02:49 on 13 Sep 2003
At 22:38 -0500 2003.09.11, Peter da Silva wrote:
>I would be even more overjoyed if Perl fanatics didn't toss off handfuls
>of line noise as if they were valid responses to legitimate hate, and then
>act all bleeding surprised when they're met by unenthusiastic responses.

Yes, I suppose Perl looks like line noise to people who don't know Perl.


>> It's not that perl programmers are idiots, it's that the language
>> rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool
>> has ever done.
>>             --Erik Naggum
>
>In other words, it's fragile and dangerous.

Yes, if by "other words" you mean "words that don't mean what the original
words meant."


>> >And to release things in public I'd be embarassed to admit I'd
>> >written.
>
>> Sounds like a personal problem.
>
>You wouldn't be embarassed to admit to authorship of Majordodo?

Not if I had written it, no.  I'd admit it sucked in certain ways and I'd
fix the problems or move on.


>It's rare I see Perl code I can't easily decipher. It's rare that I see
>Perl code that I don't have to decipher at all.

From the missing-the-point dept.  I was saying that I can read it just fine.


>I'm sure there's people who love all the software you hate. Well, some of
>us hate the software you love. Deal with it.

*shrug*  If you can't handle people responding to your hate, then don't
hate in public.

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