lnodstal submitted
good rant against Perl. Money para: "it's not that perl programmers are idiots, it's that the
language rewards idiotic behavior in a way that no other language or tool has ever done, and on top of it,
it punishes conscientiousness and quality craftsmanship -- put simply: you can commit any dirty hack in a few minutes in perl, but you can't write an elegant, maintainabale program that becomes an asset to both you and your employer; you can make something work, but you can't really figure out its complete set of failure modes and conditions of failure. "
To enliven the discussion here
, I'll add my own link:
The Problems of Perl: The Future of Bugzilla. Author claims "
Perl would not be my first choice for writing or maintaining a large project, such as Bugzilla." And then substantiates that claim with facts based on experience with Bugzilla - one of the most popular bug tracking package. It is not the only, even if it was one of the first open-source bug trackers, bacause of being build in Perl. many developers build competing packages, to avoid Perl.
This, I hope (likely in vain
), will keep discussion about Perl out of other threads. We'll see.
Edit: OK maybe I misspoke. I do not want to restrict discussion about Perl per se, I want to limit discussion about pro and con of Perl in other threads, and put it here, in context, so we don't have to repeat same arguments again and again.
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