Re: What is Perl?

[Nathan Torkington]

Alan Burlison writes:
> > 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.

(I think I forgot to say this last time, but I'm not speaking with
a Voice of Authority now, I'm just someone with an opinion)

I disagree.  If there was a bsdm.pm or -B option that gave strong type
checking, then many would be happy.  Sometimes you have to say "ok,
you need a different language for this", but sometimes you have to
ask whether Perl can make this thing easy too.

Nat