A good language can help produce good programers, though. Perhaps Tom's
team can be required to 'use OurStrictness' which sets up stuff like
exporting use of strict and taint
-Corwin
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Burlison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 1:20 PM
To: Tony Payne
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What is Perl?
Tony Payne wrote:
> The ability to have strong-typing (I don't trust Junior Engineers to get
it
> right and I don't have time to check every line of code they write)
No. No no no no. This approach is fundamentally wrong. Bad programmers
can write bad code in *any* language. Your solution is to either pick
another language (preferably one with a BSDM flavour), hire better
engineers or train the ones you have so that they don't. Don't blame
perl for your development problems, and don't expect it to fix them
either. Remember the old adage 'A poor workman always blames his
tools...'
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