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Re: [News] New Version of Perl is Out

* Tim Smith fired off this tart reply:

> In article <1gmp9o59ydn3v$.1j59n98akh72i$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>,
>  Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> http://avatraxiom.livejournal.com/58084.html
>> 
>> "However, Perl would not be my first choice for writing or maintaining a
>> large project, such as Bugzilla. The same flexibility that makes Perl so
>> powerful makes it very difficult to enforce code quality standards or to
>> implement modern object-oriented designs."
>
> Perl is fine for modern object-oriented designs that are actually well 
> designed.  It is not so good for the kind of bloated, ridiculous, 
> build-elaborate-class-heirarchies-where-simple-composition-will-do 
> trainwrecks of design that current and former Java programmers tend to 
> (and since Java is now the first language of many people, the mistakes 
> they learn in Java tend to be brought to whatever other languages they 
> learn).
>
> So, what we got with Java (or rather, with Java being poorly taught) was 
> a generation of programmers who only knew bad design--and so that became 
> part of their culture.  They developed elaborate tools and methodologies 
> to handle bad design.  It's amazing.
>
> In many ways, Java has become the modern BASIC.

What does that make .NET and Intellisense?  <Just kidding!>

Actually, now that Java is somewhat open, I'd be more keen to delve into
it.

-- 
Tux rox!

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