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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:Too Easy! (Score:1)

      by Ron Savage (5224) on 2008.05.12 21:09 (#62832) Journal

      True. And the exact same thing used to be said about Cobol programmers! And Fortan programmers, and...
      
      At least we now know Java is Cobol designed by and for accountants.
      

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