Re: criteria for acceptable languages for central QA tools in Debian
Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:
> Le Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 02:36:51PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland a écrit :
>> The "Perl Problem" is a wider issue we should explore in much more depth.
>> I'm personally a little surprised if it's true that younger people are
>> unprepared to take a stab at hacking Perl. But since that's the case, we
>> have deeply embedded, critical stuff written in Perl everywhere. "adequate"
>> is but the tip of the iceberg.
>
> The actual perl problem is that, since perl is very strict about
> backward compatibility, perl scripts written 10 or 20 years ago still
> work without requiring maintainance, hence they may appear to be
> abandonned.
Doesnt this assume that development is "finished"?
I think the problem with perl is not the language (although it is harder
to read than python, ruby, even shell) but that a lot* of the people who
wrote those 10 or 20 year-old scripts are no longer responding to bugs
or making changes.
*not all, but it's only going one way
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