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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