Thanks dws, I am glad to hear that.

The biggest Perl based system I have worked with till now is a commercial content management system called "Imperia" that has a little bit more than 175.000 lines of Perl code (with comments) in the last version I worked with.

I agree with you that "theory of operation of the product" is the biggest impediment in learning to work with such a system, and Perl is not a trivial language in itself, too.

Still, I find it very annoying that in Perl, your only option to be sure how a function is called is to wade through the actual big lump of code. And you can't auto-extract this information easily, either.

Christian Lemburg
Brainbench MVP for Perl
http://www.brainbench.com

In reply to Re: (dws)Re: Re: Is Perl the End-All? by clemburg
in thread Is Perl the End-All? by bladx

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