in reply to Re^7: Perl 11
in thread Perl 11

> p5p's goal isn't to build the finest, most technically excellent, most advanced piece of software at any point in time.

Good point, but whose goal is it?

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Re^9: Perl 11
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 25, 2018 at 17:55 UTC

    I don't think it can be the goal of any project with users who aren't themselves developers, but I'm a pragmatist very much in the Unix/Perl/Worse is Better camp.

    Larry has a quote something like "The solution is ugly because the problem is ugly."

      > I don't think it can be the goal of any project with users who aren't themselves developers, but I'm a pragmatist very much in the Unix/Perl/Worse is Better camp.

      ♩..♬ ... and all this science I don't understand ...♩..♬

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice