SPUG: software libertarianism (was: Scope question)

[Peter Darley]

Jason,
	I'm not sure that Perl isn't fine for very large applications; if
everything is kept orderly I don't see any particular size where Perl just
pukes and gives up.  I'm curious about where you tend to draw the line for
where it breaks down?
Thanks,
Peter Darley

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Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 11:15 AM
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Subject: Re: SPUG: software libertarianism (was: Scope question)


At 9:38 am -0700 2002-06-13, Dan Ebert wrote:
>On Wed, 2002-06-12 at 23:35, dancerboy wrote:
>>  Java and C# are meant for large-scale applications, not one-liners.
>
>I hope you are not implying perl cannot be used to write large
>applications.  I have seen perl used effectively for some decent size
>(and fairly complex) programs.

I would say that there's significant overlap in what different
languages are good for.  Java is crappy for one-liners, but great for
medium- to large-scale applications.  Perl is great for one-liners,
crappy for truly *large*-scale applications.  For medium-sized
applications, Perl can be great OR crappy, depending on the skills of
the developer(s) involved.  To paraphrase something I say on my web
page:  Perl empowers programmers to write code in any way that they
want.  In many cases, however, that means empowering programmers to
write code very, very badly.

-jason


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