Re^4: Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers

* Any project in Java will take 10x longer and will require 10x the effort of the same project in Perl. (Replace "Java" with C, C++, and the like, at your pleasure.)

I was thinking about writing a device driver in perl, but I couldn't figure out how to avoid memory allocation in the interrupt handlers.
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Re^5: Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Sep 29, 2005 at 01:58 UTC
I've replaced web applications initially written in C. I've had to deal with an HTTP request parser, written in C (that had bugs I wasn't allowed to fix). And, in 20 years, you will be writing device drivers in Perl (or whatever is around). "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham and The Hundred Year Language. My criteria for good software: Does it work? Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?	[reply]

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Re^5: Popularity of Perl vs. availability of Perl developers
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Sep 29, 2005 at 01:58 UTC

And, in 20 years, you will be writing device drivers in Perl (or whatever is around). "There are some stunningly novel ideas in Perl" -- Paul Graham and The Hundred Year Language.

My criteria for good software:

Does it work?
Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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