perl is not a panacea! and this is exactly the issue.

everybuddy was written with 0 expandability, and it got rewritten twice 'cause no one could add simple things. heck, register.com is written in perl with 0 expandability and it was pure HELL trying to do things like, changing prices or changing behavior or writting api's.

but it's not a matter of guessing requirements. it's a matter of staying organized. If you write for one way of expanding, and it doesn't work out, you still have something to mold. if you don't plan at all, you wind up with silly things like, 500 line functions, duplication of code, or just ugly algorithms that require more rewriting than refactoring.

In reply to Re: Re^7: Best way to 'add modules' to web app? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Best way to 'add modules' to web app? by BUU

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