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Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 anddebunk our own self generated FUD.

From:
Tom Horsley
Date:
June 16, 2006 07:53
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 anddebunk our own self generated FUD.
Message ID:
1150469537.18860.13.camel@tweety
On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 16:18 +0200, demerphq wrote:
> We need to enhance the visibility of Perl in the
> corporate sphere. We need to find useful features that the market
> wants and start delivering them. 

I happen to love perl for getting quick, one-of, temporary
jobs done very easily, but if you really want perl to have
corporate use for real long term projects, you are bound to
run into people like me who wouldn't touch perl for production
use with a ten foot pole (sorry :-).

Perl really is a write-only language, and you just can't do
production work write-only - someone has to maintain production
code, and the language is so fantastically huge, no two programmers
even appear to be writing in the same language.

I'm not sure what feature you could deliver to address this
problem, but there's your first challenge :-).




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