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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!

Give me a

  • typeless
  • functional-capable
  • oo-capable
  • manage-my-memory-for-me
  • gives-me-data-structures-that-I-think-in
  • can-drop-down-to-C
  • glues-with-everything
  • runs-on-anything (including C-64 and Palm)
  • rapid-development
  • most-of-my-work-is-done-for-me-and-better-than-I-could-do
  • I-can-make-a-difference
  • has-24/7-support-that-actually-knows-something
language any day.

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?!?"

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In reply to Re: Perl, Hackers Tool? and a good Development Language? by dragonchild
in thread Perl, Hackers Tool? and a good Development Language? by shirkdog_perl

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