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Re: Shell script or Perl?



At 2003-06-12T14:46:39Z, Gregory Seidman <gss+debian@cs.brown.edu> writes:

> This makes maintaining any substantial chunk of perl code a
> misery.

I have to vehemently disagree.  You can write spaghetti code in *any*
language, and you can write good code in Perl.  If you have any experience
with typical procedural programming languages and basic regular expressions,
then I can guarantee that you can read (and probably modify) any of the
larger Perl programs I've ever published.  I won't comment on any of the
one-off programs that I've written to accomplish one particular task in one
exact environment, but those are optimized for rapid development, not
maintenance.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
In Googlis non est, ergo non est.

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