Answer, yes. Reason--because Perl sucks. If you want a problem solved in a few hours and you want the resulting product to be unmaintainable, call a Perl scripter. The Perl guys have given all scripters a bad name--I don't know anything in my workplace that is built with Perl that is maintainable by anyone other than the scripter who wrote it. Quality of the solution over the speed of the solution---
Several posts here have attempted to make the same flawed point: If it's a script, it is therefore unmaintainable and poorly written. That's absurd. A bad programmer could write C that would induce a coma, while a skilled Perl coder could write a script that their grandparents could love. The language is irrelevant.
Don't blame the language for the mistakes of it's users. English is an excellent example of this principle.
Why? 'cos Perl sucks (Score:0)
Re:Why? 'cos Perl sucks (Score:1)
I don't see how that is the fault of Perl.
Several posts here have attempted to make the same flawed point: If it's a script, it is therefore unmaintainable and poorly written. That's absurd. A bad programmer could write C that would induce a coma, while a skilled Perl coder could write a script that their grandparents could love. The language is irrelevant.
Don't blame the language for the mistakes of it's users. English is an excellent example of this principle.