4 Dec
2014
4 Dec
'14
4:40 p.m.
On 12/4/2014 5:14 PM, Peter Corlett wrote:
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.
It is good to see other bits being used. There must be mountains of
broken and aging 0's and 1's in this digital age to use up. :-)
I think the real reason other other languages have appeared is that
you have large memory to handle bigger problems of today.
Ben.
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.