[jdev] Re: Windows stack

[Clive Holloway]

Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:05:12AM +1100, Daniel Noll wrote:
>> Think of the guy who has to maintain the code, too.  Nothing sucks more than 
>> trying to find bugs in C++ code.  (Even C is easier...)
> 
> Maybe except finding a bug in perl :D That is what I call expressive
> language (I have to learn that properly one day)
> 
> But I think we are getting OT a little bit…

I realize this is OT too, but I had to butt in :) You're parroting (sic) 
the running joke about Perl, but if you always use strict, use warnings 
and scope your variables as tightly as you can, debugging is not hard at 
all.

Perl's 'problem' is that as well as being able to write clean, well 
thought out code, it's just as easy to write a mess. Java, for example, 
forces a lot more rules on you, and it has real OO, so mistakes that can 
easily be made in Perl just can't be made in Java.

Yes, if you're debugging bad Perl, it can be hell. But, if you have to 
do that and follow the cleanup rules, it's not impossible.

http://www.extremeperl.org/bk/refactoring

But then again, I may be biased :)

cLive ;-)

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