That's a coincidence. Ovid and I were talking with a developer who didn't like Perl for similar reasons. For him, it was a maintainability issue. Since Perl gives you so many ways of doing the same thing, how could someone come in and understand the previous programmer's work? Though, he seemed to be biased in any case.

I may be being naive, but can't people use a style guide and actually trust their people? I'm also thinking no one does code review anymore. It's sad when one has to use a less flexible language because you don't want to give your programmers too much power. Do we really want to dumb down to the lowest denominator?

Note that I'm ranting against the people, not the other languages.

In reply to Re: Just Cant Win by lemming
in thread Just Cant Win by Kevman

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