[rescue] flamewar question: Perl

[Brian Hechinger]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:16:01PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> For doing OO work, it can be very good indeed.  Perhaps too powerful
> though.  There's *lots* of sick and twisted things you can do which are
> not possible in other languages.  Like, for instance, changing an object's
> inheritance at run-time.  Perl's really good at letting you shoot yourself
> in the foot.  It also doesn't do anything to protect an object's private

"C is a razor-sharp tool, with which one can create an elegant and efficient
program or a bloody mess." -The Practice of Programming (Kernighan and Pike) 

-brian
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