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Re^7: Yet another config file editing programme : Tell me how to make it better !

by dazz (Beadle)
on Sep 07, 2021 at 09:27 UTC ( [id://11136516]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^6: Yet another config file editing programme : Tell me how to make it better !
in thread Yet another config file editing programme : Tell me how to make it better !

Hi

I think the problem is mine. I know my knowledge of the language is wafer thin. I recognised that my coding was poor, which is why I came here for advice. Although professionally I direct IT based projects, I haven't seen code, or coded, as part of my job for decades. My last major IT project was for a bank where the application compiled to 22GB in size. It wasn't written in perl. I never met either the vendor or bank programmers. Too many layers of management between them and I. So I only get to actually touch code as a hobby in isolation. The absence of contact with professional programers does nothing to improve my own coding.

I get a little testy when software doesn't match the claims on the brochure and simply doesn't work when it should. I can see that perl is good for getting down in the weeds and gluing systems together. I can also see that modules are a great way of creating Lego blocks that get the job done without reinventing wheels. I was a little frustrated to find language defects and only half built Lego blocks (modules) for a task as simple as updating a Linux/Unix config file. Something I suspect is a routine part of a perl programmers role. It is what it is and I am who I am.


Dazz

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Re^8: Yet another config file editing programme : Tell me how to make it better !
by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Sep 07, 2021 at 13:16 UTC

    I get a little testy when software doesn't match the claims on the brochure and simply doesn't work when it should

    While I understand your frustration, and I feel it too (especially in lockdown), I have to ask: given you're not paying for Perl, and to the best of my knowledge have never contributed a single Perl patch or CPAN module, do you feel you have a moral right to complain?

    I too get frustrated at times but (like Your Mother) I refuse to criticize devs willing to do things I am not.

    Anyways, you've already demonstrated the talent to write useful, working programs, you just need a bit more patience and time (oops, ten years according to the first link below ;) and hard work to reach a level where it starts to become enjoyable.

    Some links you might find useful or interesting:

      Hi
      As any Mother knows, the petulant child is never concerned with rights and wrongs, only wants.

      As my daughter says, "it's all about me, me, me!"

      Thanks for the links.


      Dazz

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