I appreciate your point. But you are twisting peoples heads one way, and I'm afraid I want to twist them back the other.

Your attitude is wonderful, and we need people like you to drag us forward. Without it, we would all still be programming Perl 2. Maybe.

In my case, I'm one of those sad people who works on the principle that if it isn't broken, or completely shoddy, then it can be left for a bit later. I would like to spend time working on the newest and coolest, but I'll settle for "it works and I can go home". I apologise in advance for the despicable attitude.

OTOH it annoys me when I am asked to find libraries to support Perl 4 code because some people are stuck in 1993 and just can't seem to make it into the 21st century. Hypocrisy never felt so good...

And on a slightly different level, code is not flexible. Code is the physical implementation of those crazy ideas that we dream up. The ideas are flexible, but once we implement them in language we have fixed them, and they can't flex anymore. They can be rewritten in a new implementation, but I don't argue that the implementation will look anything like the previous one.

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Jeremy
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.

In reply to Re: de-inventing the wheel (discussion) by jepri
in thread de-inventing the wheel (discussion) by deprecated

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