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Python fanatic betmatt's Questions Comparing Perl to Python

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From Green Vs Brown Programming Languages (earthly.dev blog)

It's harder to read code than to write it -- Joel Spolsky
... writing something new is cognitively less demanding (and more fun) than the hard work of understanding an existing codebase, at least initially

Scott Adams cartoon:
Developer: The project I inherited has weak code, I need to rewrite it from scratch
Boss: Will there ever be an engineer who says, the last guy did a great job, let's keep all of it?
Developer: I'm hoping the idiot you hire to replace me says that

... if you build new things in Go but have to maintain a sprawling 20-year-old C++ codebase, can you rank them fairly? I think this is actually what the survey question is measuring. Dreaded languages are likely to be used in existing brown-field projects. Loved languages are more often used in new green-field projects.

In reply to Re: Honest question about Perl, Python and Ruby (Comparing Programming Languages References) by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Honest question about Perl, Python and Ruby by madM

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