Re: What is Perl?

[Piers Cawley]

Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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.

But please, please, please make the strong typing *useful*. Mjd has
something on how it's possible to do strong typing right up on plover
somewhere...