Comment by jrochkind1
9 years ago
I guess because it's 1997 and your free readable programming languages for convenient text processing were limited to... uh... does Perl count as readable?
9 years ago
I guess because it's 1997 and your free readable programming languages for convenient text processing were limited to... uh... does Perl count as readable?
Yeah I didn't discover python until 1999. Incidentally, that was after writing an inter-system plumbing program in sed. The guy from Andersen Consulting was so sad, because he had confidently declared that the program couldn't be written, period, let alone in one day. Then he was happier, because he realized that he would make tens of thousands of dollars rewriting it in C++. One of the managers at the poor abused client just asked, "why didn't you write it in awk?" Sorry dude, I never used awk at university... Actually we were all wrong, because I should have used sh.
Yes. CPAN is full of readable Perl. Spare us the unfair generalization.
To be fair with the previous comment, do you claim CPAN was full of readable Perl, back in 1997?