Re: Insane Uses for Perl

Insane Uses for Perl? I thought The Code Catacombs already had a few sections devoted to such usages, ya know, GUI programming and other "don't try this in Perl" projects ;)

Next they'll be trying to write drivers in Perl...

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Re: Re: Insane Uses for Perl by jepri (Parson) on Sep 16, 2002 at 01:28 UTC
Like writing a File System in Perl, hahaha... Ooops. Someone actually made one... But the link is down. Does anyone know where perlfs went? ____________________ Jeremy I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.	[reply]
Re: Re: Insane Uses for Perl by fsn (Friar) on Sep 15, 2002 at 23:07 UTC
Like writing a WindowManager in Perl, hahaha... Ooops. Someone actually made one...	[reply]
Re: Re: Insane Uses for Perl by Vennis (Pilgrim) on Sep 16, 2002 at 10:17 UTC
I think GUI programming in Perl (for small/medium programs) is not an Insane use for Perl. I agree, it shouldn't be your first choice, but Insane, i disagree.	[reply]