Re: Who wrote this crap?

In <hv4sd0$7ti$1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 06/14/2010
at 09:22 AM, abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Corlett) said:

Perl is one of those languages where any idiot can write a reasonably
large program[0] and it will run and appear to work. A program
written in C by a similarly-incompetent programmer will usually to
crash and burn in an obvious manner and not get as far as
deployment.

Alas, my experience with software written in C is that it does get as
far as deployment. The incompetence manifests in such things as not
checking array bounds because that's what the users are for. The
language is Broken As Designed (BAD).

BTW, I have a simple criterion for judging the qualifications of an
&foo advocate: if he can't tell me of any flaws in his preferred
(?:language|operating system)[1] then he doesn't understand it.

[1] It scares me that I can type such constructs without a sense of
"That can't be right."


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