I do think there are places where Perl does encourage lack of discipline

Sure, I'd even go so far as to say there are a lot of places like that. But a lot of problems don't require much discipline at all to solve. I think it's great having a language to make those easy things easy, as the cliche goes.

On the other hand, when the problem at hand does require more rigor, Perl can usually accomidate that. It may be more work -- which I suppose is sort of implied by "discipline" -- but it's possible. It's the flexibility of Perl that I really like, not the type of code it enables or encourages.

Update: I don't feel a further reply to his reply is necessary, but I do want to say I agree with adrianh completely.

In reply to Re^2: Perl and Discipline - and Freedom by revdiablo
in thread Perl and Discipline - and Freedom by spiritway

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