| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 5 Sep 2000 at 13:41:27 |
| Subject: | Re: Neil's Perl Jealousy ;) (Was: Re: Issue 12) |
On 05-Sep-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> Perl is perfectly readable,
>
> Until you get to the regexp stuff :(
But Regular Expressions have been around for decades, they aren't Perl's
fault, it just supports them.
>> it's just the error messages that aren't
>> particularly helpful at times ;)
>
> Error messages aren1t supposed ot be. If they were, all sorts of
> people would be able to understand programming and coders wouldn't be
> able to charge ridiculous fees.
Personally, I would rather be a Perl coder charging ridiculous fees than
have coding made easy for everybody. Restrictive practices are great
when you're on the right side.
Regards
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