The most interesting things that has been discussed on Meditation and Seekers Of Perl Wisdom has been of other languages than Perl.

Here is a meditation on things that I have thought of... Everything has a purpose. Almost every aspect on anything created by human hand has an intention to it. It has an intended use.

Many years ago Cobol was created. It was created for business type applications. It was hard to develop in but... people used it and it is even used today. (IMHO) It is designed to "force" people to plan their work.

Not so many years ago Perl was created. It has shown itself invaluable for all kinds of applications. Some of them never intended to be written in perl. But they were written and used. (IMHO) It has exceeded the intended use. That is good!

PHP was created for webpage scripting. It has been used for unintended purposes but it is not very good at this. And PHP projects have been forgotten(by me and others!). (IMHO) It has been created for easy development.

Not many new COBOL programmes are created today. For the only reason that the development time is too long. PHP projects fail because the development time is too short. If development times are too short then developers don't plan their work enough. The creator of Perl has forseen the problems and made the development of scripts easy and the development of modules hard(development of PHP modules is easier it is a comparision).

Write your scripts fast. Hack together them. When you create modules. Plan your work.

In reply to Intended use and unintended use. An insight into design. by JanneVee

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