4 Dec
2014
4 Dec
'14
4:14 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 04:39:38PM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
Nah, there's a massive pile of really crufty bits right there in plain sight as
well. I have made a reasonable living out of spelunking ancient Perl
codebases, and there are times when it's like doing an autopsy on one of the
Great Old Ones.
Rich Alderson <RichA at
livingcomputermuseum.org> wrote:
[...]
I don't
pretend to have explored all the dark corners of Perl,
As someone who has written a
two-pass cross-assembler in Perl, it is my
considered opinion that Perl consists almost entirely of dark corners.