From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Computer Programming for Everybody?
Date: 1999/09/14
Date: 1999-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <RalD3.399$bO.45834@typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ri1ls$1rf9@drn.newsguy.com
>I've seen Java programmers who do not understand what is a 'RECORD'.
Recently I had a chat with a programmer at a young .com company.
He said all their work was done in Perl. Their database and
transactions are not records in a file, but are HTML pages.
Information is extracted from those pages by Perl regular
expression scanning. They have lots of hardware so speed and space
are not a problem. He did allow as how it's hard to add "fields"
to those HTML pages without breaking some program's Perl scanning,
and the most of the authors of older Perl code have moved on.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-10 0:00 Computer Programming for Everybody? Ted Dennison
1999-09-10 0:00 ` Raymond Calande
1999-09-10 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-12 0:00 ` mitch
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Mike Hall
1999-09-14 0:00 ` tmoran [this message]
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Tarjei Jensen
1999-09-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
[not found] ` <Pine.HPP.3.93.990915162218.958A-100000@merle.acns.nwu.edu>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <7ronav$shf@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
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