On Jun 11, 11:36 pm, Tim Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 11, 8:02 am, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It is possible to write maintainable Perl. > > > Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing about a purported > > sighting of Bigfoot, or maybe a UFO). > > I think it's just obvious that this is the case. What would *stop* > you writing maintainable Perl?
The constantly shifting target of a language. Hell, even the parser has changed over time. Fortunately this seems to have been solved by Perl 6 [*]. [*] Stopping work on Perl 5 to focus on the probably never-to-be Perl 6 brought a surprising stability to the language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list