At 01:00 PM 8/1/00 -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote:
>It'd be nice if taint, strict, and other "bondage and discipline" coding
>practices were things you had to turn off, instead of automatically on. That
>would give the casual coder a beaten path from which they could chose to
>depart in whole or incrementally.
I'd much rather this be, at best, in a site policy file. I'd prefer perl's
defaults to stay the way they are.
>I'd don't think Perl will really be accepted as a real programming language
>until....[snippage]
Not to be too callous, but who *cares* if perl's accepted as a real
programming language? I mean, do we all get an extra merit badge (well, OK,
maybe not all of us, but...) if we get the Academic Pedant's Stamp of
Approval? (If anyone gets cranky about perl as a "real" programming
language, just tell 'em that sendmail's Turing Complete. That ought to
throw anyone into enough of a tailspin that you've got time to escape)
This isn't an argument against a comprehensive and formal-enough spec for
the language (I want one so I have a target to shoot for) mind. A formal
spec doesn't make it a "real" language, though.
Dan
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