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in thread Perl in the Enterprise

The article is talking about replacing Ada with Perl for submarine navigation controls; that's an example of a control system, and it's insane.

Read the article; the author thinks perl is perfect for literally everything. It's not.

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Re^4: Perl in the Enterprise
by perrin (Chancellor) on May 18, 2006 at 17:51 UTC
    You're right, that is an idiotic idea. I don't know why he thinks that has anything to do with "enterprise." Military applications are almost the opposite of enterprise coding.
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      Military applications are almost the opposite of enterprise coding.

      I'm guessing to you "military" means something like aviation control or weapons targeting systems.

      But "the military" is an enterprise in itself. The U.S. DoD is the largest, most complex organization in the world. They do indeed have "enterprise" systems, for things like logistics management.

      We're building the house of the future together.
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        "Enterprise" systems usually refer to the in-house custom apps that businesses write for their own use and don't sell to anyone, e.g. "that thing Bob wrote that lets the merchants check how many foozits were purchased but not shipped yet". As anyone who has worked on such systems knows, these are almost uniformly the worst code imaginable. Most of them don't scale, have no tests, and are held together with chewing gum. It is possible that things are just as bad in the non-weaponry side of military coding, but I hope not.
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