[pm-h] RedHat patch causes slodowns on Perl

[Todd Rinaldo]

Good/bad code can be written in any language. Personally I'm waiting
on the day when Java hits crappy code critical mass and they start to
consider it "legacy". Seems like all the outsourcing should have
achieved this goal by now. What I wonder is what the lag is for
managers to figure this out.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Chris Blanc <cblanc at dionysius.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if I've posted to this list before (insert pithy statement
> of personal disorganization) but this article made me steam a little:
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/08/why_corporates_hate_perl.html
>
> I think everything in it is true, and I've seen this situation in
> progress at past jobs. People like to blame the tool, and find a trend
> to purchase instead, than get down to the hard work of making machines
> do what you want them to do.
>
> I'm no Perl expert, but I've applied it in enough situations where it
> has done wonders to question the wisdom of anyone who says it's not a
> fit solution. I do think it's a victim of its own success; the same
> "typing error" style that makes it sometimes efficient for an expert can
> make it anathema to others, and rather than admit their inexpertise (or,
> God forbid, crack a book and figure it out) they blame the tool.
>
> </rant>
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:27:06AM -0500, G. Wade Johnson wrote:
>> Important message on PerlBuzz about a bug on RedHat that causes massive
>> slowdown's in Perl.
>>
>> http://perlbuzz.com/2008/08/red-hats-patch-slows-down-overloading-in-perl.html
>>
>> G. Wade
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