From: pventura@cs.buffalo.edu (Philip R Ventura)
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: <6963ut$1uu$1@prometheus.acsu.buffalo.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6956pq$mnu@drn.zippo.com
In article <6956pq$mnu@drn.zippo.com>, <nabbasi@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>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.
Perl is ten years old. Besides one of the stated design goals is as a
"glue" language for quickly hacking together ad hoc scripts. As far
as readability Perl does have its quirks. Hardly the panacea you
propose. But then again one can write crappy code in any language,
even Ada ;)
Just Another Perl Hacker
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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
1998-01-09 0:00 ` Philip R Ventura [this message]
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
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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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