On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:54:46AM -0500, "Elaine -HFB- Ashton" wrote:
> 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.
It goes like this.
Before, people used to be computer literate a long time before they took up
programming.
Now people "learn" programming before they have touched a computer.
After all, supposedly, that is "where the money is."
So we have a bunch of non-techies looking for a language that they can "use"
without too much effort. Ahhh! Perl! They know how to use the print statement!
Wow!
Then they go and market themselves well, even if they are NOT actually decent
coders, or have any sort of background in coding at all, they throw "Perl"
on their CV, and take up contracts to write code (usually CGI's).
They write crap that works, barely, then they move on.
A month later it all falls to pieces and management takes a look at what
went wrong. They see all the crappy code written in perl and decide that
perl is another JavaScript.
So perl's biggest problem (also it's biggest selling point) is that it
attracts a great number of people that wouldn't (read: shouldn't) ever
be able to program in the first place.
How is that for cynicism?
mark
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