Re: FAQ and string functions

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

Oleg Goodyckov wrote:
> But guys, how many so "long-live" applications have you seen in our low
> cost use-and-throw products world,

I think most Boeing aircraft would not count as "use and throw away"
products. Hmmm... I take that back. Does Boeing make rocket boosters? ;-)

What you may be missing is the vast quantity of programming going on that
you never see. The software that runs your automobile dashboard. The
software that routes your baggage at the airport. The software planning
which gates to open at the dam. The software running the phone switch you're
dialed in to. The software keeping track of which wires your phone uses, and
under what streets they run. The software keeping track of whether you've
paid your bill, and whether you moved after not paying your bill, and etc.
And etc. All these programs run for years and years and years, and they're
all big enough that something like Perl isn't going to hack it. 

Seriously, yes, Perl isn't bad for a program you don't need to look at in 3
months. Personally, I use Tcl for programs I work on myself. I don't think
something like Tcl (or especially Perl) scales well enough that you can have
500 programmers from 20 different countries in 10 different timezones
working on the same program. I expect Ada is pretty good at that, tho.

> that you can allow your selfs going to
> maintains they along 20 years? May be I'm mistaken, but today, when new
> microprocessors are borning every year most long-needed-support are
> language compilers itself.

You're in a very narrow world, really. At the latest report I saw, ARM sells
more processors (processor cores, really) each year than Intel sells
Pentiums.
 
> Sounds good: "Ada is language for programming of eternity" :)))

Well, it was certainly designed more for that than Perl was. Perl, after
all, was a throw-away-report-generator, so of course it's going to have good
string chopping code and lousy maintainability.

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