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: 103376,71d1fdde81c072f8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: Computer Programming for Everybody? Date: 1999/09/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 524778129 References: <7ri1ls$1rf9@drn.newsguy.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 937287473 206.170.2.51 (Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:37:53 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:37:53 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >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.