Johan Vromans [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
*>On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 08:35:29AM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
*>> Sometimes I think the reason the "Perl is difficult to maintain" myth
*>> gets so much credibility is because we spend so much time fighting it.
*>
*>You may be very right.
*>Fighting is also quite different from marketing.
So, how did Perl get this 'bad rap' and what sorts of things could dispel
it? I'm working in a company these days that thinks that Perl isn't robust
enough for the big jobs and might be good for scripting occasionally.
However, they went to the trouble of having someone write up a Perl coding
standard.
Investigating how these 'myths' started and how they are maintained would
be a good place to begin to find a solution. I've seen horrible crap in
shell...but it doesn't have this aura of complexity around
it....everything is perspective, including perspective.
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