Kwan Lowe wrote:
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/14/2010 1:16 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
Personally I've banned Perl from the network primarily because of the maintenance disaster that is CPAN.
And your perfectly maintained public source of equivalent functionality is in what language?
But, you should rarely if ever use CPAN code directly in Centos for the same reasons you wouldn't drop a stock upstream kernel every few days. Most of what you are likely to need are packaged - and maintained - in EPEL or rpmforge.
:) Thank goodness for CPAN2RPM. I use it quite often for the occasional package that is not in the default repos.
As to Perl.. though it still is my preferred language for getting things done (mainly because I understand it that I first think out problems in Perl then convert to other languages), I have seen some bad, really bad Perl code..
And your point is? I consider the fact that *every* *single* *time* tomcat crashes ("you cannot have null pointer exceptions in java", the books all said), the stack trace is 150 or 200 calls deep. Show me something written in C, or C++, or perl, or php, or... that's that bad.
And then there was the guy I worked with in the late eighties, who converted a 3000-line RPGIII program to a 600 line RPGII program, while I went from a 2200-line COBOL program to 600+ lines....
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