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• Perl is weirder (Score:1)

  by jinx+ (1681)

  I remember Steve asking a list at work how to do a recursive find/replace on a file tree with Perl since he barely knew a lick of it. He got 3 answers. He picked the worst, most verbose, and hardest to use as the best choice. This was also during a time when Steve's dev group was foisting a horrible Java piece of crap on the customer service department which took 18 months to reach 25% of the coverage of the previous command line C and Perl tools it was supposed to replace; it was also too slow to use half

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  • Too Easy! (Score:1)

    by chromatic (983)

    He picked the worst, most verbose, and hardest to use as the best choice.

    It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to Java: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      I think there’s a quote trying to be coined in there. Maybe “Classes are to Java programmers as GOTO is to BASIC kids”? Hm, not catchy enough.
      • Re:Too Easy! (Score:2)

        by Ovid (2709) on 2008.05.15 7:02 (#62864) Homepage Journal

        Interfaces are to Java what machines are to Rube Goldberg.

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