Re:Perl Startups: Lacuna Expanse
by chromatic on Saturday July 13, 2013 @08:15PM
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To be honest the parent comment to yours first link reminds me of a rather lot of shell/perl created by people that treat things with the procedural mindset and just keep bashing their heads against a problem until it succeeds.
To my mind, that's a success for Perl: it allows people who wouldn't otherwise be able to write programs to do so. Sure, they make messes--who doesn't at first?--but they get things done.
Re:Perl Startups: Lacuna Expanse
by mitchty on Saturday July 13, 2013 @08:44PM
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True enough, just pointing out that you can write... ugly code in any language. Bash/perl tend to get abused more often from what I've seen. Hopefully they improve in the future.
To my mind, that's a success for Perl: it allows people who wouldn't otherwise be able to write programs to do so. Sure, they make messes--who doesn't at first?--but they get things done.