use Perl

• Are we to believe you? (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  I haven’t read the final installments yet, but the previous ones seem to run contrary to most of the things you’d said about programming language design before…

  You’ll have a hard time convincing me this wasn’t a really long April Fools’ joke. :-)
  • Re:Are we to believe you? (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983)

    I suppose it really depends on what your definition of "maintainable" is.
  • Re:Are we to believe you? (Score:1)

    by n1vux (1492)

    At least id didn't have ponies.

    --
    Bill
    # I had a sig when sigs were cool
    use Sig;
• 404'd (Score:1)

  by bdonlan (5745)

  hmm, the fifth installment [oreillynet.com] seems to have vanished...
  • Re:404'd (Score:2)

    by bart (450)

    No it hasn't. But if you look at the first part of the series (link in journal), then you can see that part 2 has number 1, etc... so it's an off by one error. Part 5 is at http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p_4.h tml [oreillynet.com]. The link in that article to part 5 is wrong.
• Memory Management? (Score:2)

  by offerk (4962)

  Using the Eclipse IDE improves the Perl programming language by use of garbage collection, freeing programmers from manual memory management.

  You need the Eclipse IDE for GC? Really? Dear me, and here I thought Perl had it's own Garbage Collection built into the langauge... ;-)

  That minor point aside, I disgree with nearly every single point you made - that's some achievment :)
  Anyway, who says progamming in the future will be text based? Your entire article assumes a text-files based system, yet who know
• Least Fixed Points, and Reading between the lines (Score:1)

  by roger.hale (5727)

  I believe I have found a minimal (and possibly, in fact, the only possible) solution to your six constraints, but the remainder of this post is unfortunately too large to contain it. Please see my comment on part 1...
  
  -- spinclad