On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:03:54PM -0800, Jarrod Overson wrote: > Once a full rewrite is on the table it's hard for a team and/or company to > not at least question whether or not perl is the "right" language to use > going forward. For almost every project i've worked on in the past several
Yes, that's a fair question to make. > years, it hasn't. Good perl programmers are hard to find and keep and the > bad ones write the code that eventually has to get rewritten. And that isn't true for any other language? A company not a million miles from me (but more than 1000) has just written a disaster, in Java. And I'm curious in a couple of years how the majority of recently written Rails apps turn out. (Particularly Rails, because it's rapidly become very trendy, which means that demand for programmers will have outstripped experience with it) Nicholas Clark
