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

From:
chromatic
Date:
June 16, 2006 11:53
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.
Message ID:
200606161152.25104.chromatic@wgz.org
On Friday 16 June 2006 07:52, Tom Horsley wrote:

> 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 :-).

That's rule zero [*].  Don't feel badly.  A lot of companies fail to meet this 
rule.

-- c

* Don't hire crack-addled, barely literate monkeys who spend more time 
screeching and flinging stuff at each other than working together to create 
and maintain production code.



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