From: nabbasi@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages
Date: 1998/01/09
Date: 1998-01-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6956pq$mnu@drn.zippo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34b4e5f8.997361@news.mindspring.com
In article <34b4e5f8.997361@news.mindspring.com>, munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com
says...
>
>Perl also has the interesting characteristic that novices tend
>to write fairly straightforward, easy-to-read code,
this is the first time I've seen "easy-to-read" and "perl" in the
same sentence :)
Pepole nowadays are all so busy, they just want to write something that does
the current and immediate task only without looking ahead, very few care
about long term reusability, about maintainance, about software design,
about intergation, etc.., it is a world of hacking, and short time-to-market,
and quick fixes and bug releases. That is why they are so busy, busy
fixing buggy software and trying to understand what the previous
programmers were trying to write, and here comes a language like Perl
to help us out from the software crisis we are in.
Nasser
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-01-05 0:00 general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-08 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1998-01-09 0:00 ` nabbasi [this message]
1998-01-09 0:00 ` Philip R Ventura
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Randal Schwartz
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-09 0:00 ` David Wheeler
1998-01-09 0:00 ` Philip R Ventura
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-08 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-09 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Thornton
1998-01-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Thornton
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-01-12 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Randal Schwartz
1998-01-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] <01bd1616$a9110b40$24326489@Westley-PC.calspan.com>
1997-12-31 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
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