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Re: Perl, Hackers Tool? and a good Development Language?

by perrin (Chancellor)
on Mar 12, 2003 at 19:53 UTC ( [id://242488]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Perl, Hackers Tool? and a good Development Language?

Bad code is hard to maintain. Language choice is orthogonal to quality of code.
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Re: Perl, Hackers Tool? and a good Development Language?
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Mar 12, 2003 at 21:25 UTC
    Still, in some languages it's easier to write bad code than in other languages. And in other languages it's hard to write maintainable code. It's much harder to write maintainable code in languages like Brainfuck, Ook or Chef (all of which run on Parrot, IIRC), let alone languages like INTERCAL or Befunge, than it is to do so in Perl. OTOH, I believe it's easier to write bad code in Perl than it is in Python. But note that the latter sentence does not imply it's harder to write good maintainable code in Perl that it's in Python.

    Abigail

      But note that the latter sentence does not imply it's harder to write good maintainable code in Perl that it's in Python.

      That's a good one. I'd even go as far as saying it doesn't imply you can write better code in python than you can in perl. (Note that this statement is based on logical inferrence, not knowledge of python.)

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