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Postings from May 2000
According to Elaine Ashton:
> A rather bright engineer here recently commented that "Perl is not for
> production code, period." and he has never actually used the language.
I think most of those misconceptions are correlation/causality errors:
"We had problems with a Perl program in production"
which correlates Perl with problems, becomes:
"If we use Perl in production again, we'll have more problems"
which is a (false) assumption of a causal relationship.
C++ suffers the same reputation problem, for much the same reasons.
Also consider that pre-ISO C++ is far inferior to modern C++.
Likewise, Perl 4 is far inferior to Perl 5.6. But once opinions are
formed, it's hard to get people to take the time to reevaluate them.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K