in reply to Re^2: Perl in the Enterprise
in thread Perl in the Enterprise

ObAnecdote: Prof for a software engineering class I took used to work on military grade systems. She told us of one demo they gave of some equipment (some sort of avionics system, I want to say) that was supposed to be very fault tolerant (redundant components, etc). Before they started, one of the observing colonels or generals said "Hold on a second" and went up to the demo unit, popped it open, and plucked out a CPU. Fortunately for them, it worked as designed.

Needless to say, that's definitely a few steps beyond even "enterprise".

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Re^4: Perl in the Enterprise
by apotheon (Deacon) on May 20, 2006 at 17:16 UTC

    We called the creation of that level of robust system stability "Joe-proofing", because it was ensuring that the system could survive being subjected to the tender ministrations of GI Joe in the field.

    print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
    - apotheon
    CopyWrite Chad Perrin