Re^2: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers."

This one looks like someone who didn't know about fancier things like IPC::Open2, not someone trying to be tricky. He's right about combining statements with "and" though.

he was talking about C::Scan originally written by Ilya Zakharevich (ilyaz) and now being maintained by hv (the current perl pumpking). I doubt they didn't known about IPC::Open2!

For me it's understandable, they were just focusing on the important thing, parsing the C code, and leaving secondary things like portability for later... or just going for a "it works for me but patches are welcome" mode.

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Re^3: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers." by hv (Prior) on Jun 16, 2005 at 15:25 UTC
Er, ex-pumpking - see The perl 5.10 pumpkin passes. I'd say his point about C::Scan is perfectly fair, and the sort of thing that isn't said often enough. I'd rather have had a patch, though, and a slightly more temperate approach. Hugo	[reply]
Re^4: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers." by salva (Canon) on Jun 16, 2005 at 15:40 UTC
you are still appearing as co-pumpking on perlhack!	[reply]