[geeks] One of these days....

[Michael Conlen]

> -----Original Message-----
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 06:22:12PM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> > I'm going to remember that writing and debugging 10 lines of perl is
> > 100,000 times harder than writing the same code in C.
>
> every time i work on a damn perl script i always end up saying
> "if i had written
> this in C i'd have been done a LONG FUCKING TIME AGO"
>
> gonna have to take another stab at it again soon, need to rewrite
> that script
> i wrote for work using the Excel Spreadsheet writing module since
> i don't really
> care to write an excel library in C.  although i should.  it
> would seriously
> rock.

You could grab the code for the Win32::OLE module... ...I'd guess you could
turn it in to a C library somewhat easily.

the key to perl is remember that just because you *can* do it doesn't mean
you *should* do it.

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Michael Conlen
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