[ILUG-Social] Perl is a pool language

[kevin lyda]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 12:05:49PM +0100, Kathryn Cassidy wrote:
> > > Perl is a poor choice of language for all but the smallest projects IMHO.
> > > Good for small write-only scripts. Poor for application development. (I know
> > > because I've used it for this type of stuff).
> These people praised perl for its maintainability, fast development
> time and the ease of software reuse which it permits, particularly with
> reguard to CPAN where you can get prewritten modules for just about
> everything you might want to do.  Maybe they were making it up, but I
> suspect it's more likely that perl can be, and is, used successfully
> in all types and sizes of project.

they made it up.  all projects are highly dependant on what languages
are used.  obviously if (reasonable[0]) languages were not an issue then
the skill of the developers would come into question...

NOTE: no one get bent out of sorts.  this is my general opinion about
language wars.  it is the craftsmen, not the tool that is responsible for
success or failure.  a programmer's familiarity with a language is very
important *but* that's not an intrinsic quality of the language.

kevin

[0]  obviously it's impossible to write large maintainable apps in risc
     assmebly, intercal or basic...  :)

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