Hey! what's with the gratuitious Perl dig? I do not agree that Perl is an example of "worse is better." Perl magnifies certain sloppy programming practices because... Perl was designed for lazy, sloppy, and smart :) programmers.
I can't get over the amount of hand-holding Eclipse gives you for Java code. All of this is possible because Java is well-defined, strict, fixed in form, etc. All of which Perl are not. On Jan 18, 2008 9:07 PM, Gerald Timothy Quimpo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > and timing. mysql is a clear example of "Worse is better". > just as, e.g., perl was. Both were available and were licensed > in a way that allowed them to be used for free so that they could > gain market share. market share has its own momentum. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
