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I hear people bitch about perl but others say its most productive
language.

"gavino" <> wrote:

Please put your question in your message as well as in the subject line.


] is perl a mess as it scales,

Scales in what dimension? Code gets bigger? Data structures get bigger?
Programs run for longer times without restarting? number of threads
increases?

] and is it really hard to debug?

If you write spaghetti code, it will be hard to debug. In any language.

> I hear people bitch about perl but others say its most productive
> language.

For some people it is the most productive. Other people need the B&D of
something like Java to keep them from shooting themselves in the foot.

Xho

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gavino <> wrote:

> I hear people bitch about perl but others say its most productive
> language.


Some of these people are correct, some of those people are wrong,
but most people bitch while using Perl productively!


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