You are probably right that sometimes it is better to restart a project from scratch than to try to re-use pieces of code that really don't belong together.

I have to object though to the way you seem to consider C superior to Perl. C is right for low-level stuff, basically when you want efficient code, both fast and using little memory. When you are writing perl, the interpreter for example. For most other tasks the price is too high. You loose a _LOT_ in development time and potential bugs or security problems. I have worked in very few projects where the cost of using C would have been justified. And I have been involved in a lot of projects, both in C (in my pre-Perl days) and in Perl.

So yes, start from scratch, but why not start from scratch in Perl?

In reply to Re: Downside of Perl (relative) popularity by mirod
in thread Downside of Perl (relative) popularity by stefp

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