Re^3: Samples of big projects done in Perl

I always wondered: Why would a 500,000 lines project in Perl be less easier to maintain than a project with 1,000,000 lines of C++?

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Re^4: Samples of big projects done in Perl by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 07, 2006 at 06:29 UTC
Named types and strict compile time type checking are a large part of it. Member access protection is a modest part. DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]