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kulua talk
Posted by scottk on December 18, 2007 in Technology | ∞
[10:08] <fwiles> Perl is 20 years old today
[10:09]Â <Gedanken> It will be another 5 years old until perl 6 is released
[10:09]Â <fwiles> I don’t think it’ll be that long, but I would be surprised to see a RC in 2008 honestly
[10:10]Â <fwiles> but next year Perl can drink… so it’s all good
[10:21]Â <kreep> I thought perl6 already came out, they just renamed it to Ruby 2.0
[10:21]Â * kreep ducks
[10:24]Â * fwiles throws some Unicode at kreep
[10:27]Â <Gedanken> Unicode hurts cuz the characters are bigger
[10:27]Â <Gedanken> he he
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Perl has been good to me, so I’m not anti-Perl (at least for command line scripts), but…
The Problems of Perl: The Future of Bugzilla
http://avatraxiom.livejournal.com/58084.html
http://readlist.com/lists/lists.rawmode.org/catalyst/0/1377.html
Oh – Merry Christmas!
Interestingly if you get about halfway through the comments there is a thread on just using perl. From what I gather there Bugzilla is mainly composed of many lines of code slopped together from various contributers where conformity has been a low priority. Is it a wonder why the poster if being overwhelmed by the perl code now that he goes back to look at it.
I think they fall into the trap that many places fall into. It’s not the fault of the programmer but the fault of the code and the framework. Every one of these switch over cases I’ve read has to do with a out of control codebase from which problems arise do to a lack of “best practices”. At the end it’s the grass is greener on the other side of the fence mentality, not the realization that over the years things have gotten complicated and they need to be straightened out.
Honestly I think it’s some what of a generational problem, everything is disposable. If something doesn’t work throw it away and get something new, even if you were the one who broke it.