Perl of Near-Perfection

Gentle MonkBeings:

I would like to call your attention to a news release that showcased the tireless efforts of the Perl development team in a good light.

     Here's the link to the most recent PR: Coverity Study Ranks LAMP Code Quality

     Another: LAMP lights the way in open-source security

     Here's the link to Coverity: Home page

Not only is Perl very flexible and powerful, it don't break much! :D

Don Wilde
"There's more than one level to any answer."

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Re: Perl of Near-Perfection by Scott7477 (Chaplain) on Apr 13, 2006 at 18:19 UTC
These results are a strong argument for using Perl. The key quote from the first article: "Chelf was surprised, however, by the performance of the Perl language. 'Of the LAMP stack, Perl had the best defect density well passed standard deviation and better than the average, Chelf said. Perl had a defect density of only 0.186. In comparison Python had a defect density of 0.372 and PHP was actually above both the baseline and LAMP averages at 0.474.'" Based on these results, using Perl will result in fewer built-in handicaps to producing quality code. Take that and slap it on your boss's desk. Too bad someone can't get access to the bloated, buggy source code emitted by Redmond. I'd like to see this analysis performed on Windows.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl of Near-Perfection by samizdat (Vicar) on Apr 13, 2006 at 18:28 UTC
Their process uses hooks added to the compiler to do the assessment. It's actually pretty neat, and was a real light-bulb moment for me when I considered it. That means they'd have to debug the Doze C compiler first... =8^O Don Wilde "There's more than one level to any answer."	[reply]