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Re: Perl, Hackers Tool? and a good Development Language?by dragonchild (Archbishop) |
on Mar 12, 2003 at 19:16 UTC ( [id://242474]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Structured is as structured does. I find C++ extremely hard to develop in and maintain. All that crap about memory management and list manipulation that I have to do by hand. Feh. Whatever!
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Another Point - there was an obfuscated-C contest for at least 20 years before one was created for Perl. Yet Another Point - these same arguments were made about going from ASM to Pascal, back in the early 80's. Yet Another Point (Continued) (YAPC?) - COBOL, back in the day, was written with an eye to _not_ being maintained. That's why they used 2-digit years. "You mean my program wasn't retired in five years?!?" ------ Don't go borrowing trouble. For programmers, this means Worry only about what you need to implement. Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.
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