PERL isn't going wrong, it's arguably the single best tool available in the extracting-and-reporting domain (the name's a bit of a give-away). If you want to push the boundaries of the language then just be thankful that you can, and don't go crying to the original designers for failing to coddle you enough.
Sure, PERL is prone to obfuscation, it's even easy to abuse. Then again, so are machetes, but I haven't seeing the campaigns for blunter knives yet... And yes, there have been several case studies that show the number of bugs in a piece of code is basically a fixed percentage of the number of tokens, regardless of the language. Fewer tokens = Fewer bugs. On 24 October 2010 15:42, Liam Knox <[email protected]> wrote: > Really? You can accurately equate Characters to that ? Where is Perl going > Wrong? > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Kevin Wright > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> It equates to 30% less time spent tracking down bugs in code that now >> doesn't even exist, and the money paid to the developer who does so. >> >> On 24 October 2010 15:22, Liam Knox <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> what does 30% reductions in characters mean and how does this equate to >>> time or money ? >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Ken Egervari >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi guys, >>>> >>>> I wrote a framework that intends to replace DBUnit. It promises a 30% >>>> reduction in the number of characters used compared to dbunit, and >>>> mass simplifications and extra features across the board. >>>> >>>> It's on git. You can read about it there: >>>> http://github.com/egervari/scaladbtest >>>> >>>> I only spent 2 or 3 days on it so far, but all the basic functionality >>>> is there and it works with mysql and hsqldb for sure. I even have it >>>> working on a real project that has 1093 tests and hundreds of records >>>> of test data, so it's field tested ;) It actually runs faster than >>>> dbunit too by about 10 seconds :) >>>> >>>> Enjoy, >>>> >>>> Ken >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "The Java Posse" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "The Java Posse" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin Wright >> >> mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] >> pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright >> twitter: @thecoda >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
