From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dd4586b9dd51c602 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nabbasi@earthlink.net Subject: Re: general-purpose vs. domain-specific programming languages Date: 1998/01/09 Message-ID: <6956pq$mnu@drn.zippo.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 314305326 References: <98010512040396@psavax.pwfl.com> <34b4e5f8.997361@news.mindspring.com> Organization: Original Zippo News Service [http://www.zippo.com] Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-01-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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