[oclug] Why Perl is a Bad Language

[Francis Pinteric]

--- Dave O'Neill <doneill at linuxcare.com> wrote:
> Correctness proofs for any nontrivial piece of software are
> difficult, if
> not impossible, no matter what the language.
>

And perl makes it exponentially harder...

> [ snip incorrect and misleading bit on NP-Completeness ]
>

Oh, incorrect how? I was trying to simplify it for the crowd out
there who don't know (and don't care) about the theory. But, I'd be
interested in hereing your views offline.

[I've snipped the rest as irrelevent to what I want to say]

Very good critique indeed most of which I agree with.

>>>--fja->

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There are no stupid questions, but there are a LOT of inquisitive idiots.

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