Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 11/23/24 12:31 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 23:57:58 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

Way back I bought the usual "Learn Perl" book with the camel on the
front. About two chapters in I said "WHY ???".

 Perl was designed by a bunch of clever people, who understood the sort of
features they wanted to add. The trouble is, they did it in kind of an ad-
hoc way, so the syntax, like Topsy, “just growed”.

   "Feature creep" ... you keep having to figure out how
   to jam new stuff into the middle of the old stuff until
   you just have a total MESS. That's when you're supposed
   to totally re-do, or abandon, but Perl was already too
   well 'established' so they were stuck with what/how '
   came before.
   As the Frog Guy said - "It's a TRAP !"
   "Organic evolution" is fine - but sometimes you wind up
   with a platypus.