On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jeff Yoak wrote: > All, > > I wasn't sure what volume of response to expect when I originally > wrote. Thank you all for the comments that you all are making. They are > helping. Given that the response is fairly high, I'm waiting for stuff to > roll in rather than replying to each of you. Don't think it is falling on > unappreciating ears. :-) > To respond to a few recurring comments / questions: > > Me? I've spent most of the last four years working on mod_perl-based stuff > and most of the last eight working with Perl. Actually I've worked with > folks who were involved with some of the projects you've mentioned, having > been at idealab!, a parent of eToys and CitySearch. One of the original > (THE original?) developer at CitySearch was probably the most helpful > mentor / teacher I've ever worked with. I programmed in C a lot early in > my career, but at this point I couldn't write anything substantial without > brushing up, and frankly wouldn't care to. It just isn't as fun to work > with C. But then, the argument, "But if you used C, you wouldn't get to > work with ME!" may not convince some of these people with their values all > screwed up... ;-)
Actually that would be my argument. When you're getting investors in, the primary thing they should be looking to buy into is the quality of the people there, not necessarily the code, because only one out of those two can be fixed easily (even in our current times, totally replacing a programming team is a difficult thing to do). I write C. I write Perl. And I combine them both to good effect. But, I wouldn't even consider writing anything but time critical routines in C - I do as much as possible in Perl for the following reasons: - It's fast enough. - It's safer. - It has a built in test harness (Test::Harness). - It's more fun. - It's faster to develop in. - It's OO, and that saves me time and effort. - It has an infinitely better community than C. The last point is probably my favourite, though probably means bugger all to an investor. -- <!-- Matt --> <:->Get a smart net</:->
