Don't code drunk, then.

Yeah, and if I can go 10 seconds without writing a bug, I can go 30 seconds without writing a bug. If I can go 30 seconds without writing a bug, surely I can go 2 minutes without writing a bug. If I can go 2 minutes without writing a bug, I can go 20 minutes without writing a bug, and so on, and so forth, ad infinitum.

Likewise a team that always did the right thing every time without having to think about it would never need a software development process. Let me know if you ever hear of such a team.

I can often go 10 seconds without writing a bug. I still write tests though.

I sometimes realize a few months into a project that I've been making a mistake for a while, and I need to find and fix it every time it occurs in my code. Sure, there's grep and App::Ack, but they're linear textual searches (regexes notwithstanding), and there's a big difference between that and a search over the canonical tree structure of Perl documents. P::C gives me a way to do that, and to stop those problems from coming up again in the future.

It's nice that you have the luxury of never making mistakes. If you can teach people everywhere how to stop being not perfect while coding, I'll stop recommending the use of tools which, when used intelligently, can help them code better until they reach your level of transcendent perfection.

In reply to Re^8: Modern Perl and the Future of Perl by chromatic
in thread Modern Perl and the Future of Perl by chromatic

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