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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Please remember that I'm crufty and crochety. All opinions are purely mine and all code is untested, unless otherwise specified.