We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl

Re:We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl by ukuina on Sunday March 17, 2024 @10:27AM (#39734700)

I have written Perl solo, and then migrated that Perl into a team setting, and the mindset shift needed is HUGE. I agree with you.

The happy medium is to write your program twice: Write it solo in Perl for rapid thought-to-code, figuring out architectural issues along the way. Then, write it again in Python for scalable collaboration using the revised architecture. This gives you a working solution for the problem FAST and adheres to "Do it, then do it right".

Unfortunately, this doesn't scale to systems. I do hope LLM-driven transmogrification becomes a real thing.

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Re:We were wizards – a foreword to Learning Perl by runlaszlorun on Sunday March 17, 2024 @11:58AM (#39735336)

I’ve never done Perl but would writing solo in Perl and then rewriting it again in Perl with a team be an option?

I have an affection for both Forth and Lisp, two languages that have also been called highly productive but write only.

I think a working early version- even if its a spreadsheet- is 10x of a supposedly 80% done version of something else. The latter of which I must now return to unfortunately…

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