- From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
- To: "Amelia A Lewis" <amyzing@t...>,<xml-dev@l...>
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 09:18:45 -0000
My recollection is that the real crux of the debate amounted to whether
"can't do X" and "shouldn't do X" mean the same thing!
Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
C++ tools for C++ programmers, http://codalogic.com
Read & write XML in C++, http://www.xml2cpp.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amelia A Lewis" <amyzing@t...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: parsing markup with Perl
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 16:20:27 +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
The issue for corporate coding is not whether a well-managed disciplined
group of experienced programmers can turn out maintainable Perl (or any
language) code with the benefit of hindsight, but how fast the code sinks
into maintainability as soon as someone drips the ball (wrong design,
wrong
review process, wrong experience, wrong texting, etc). I don't think
Perl
has a good track record, based on what I have seen at least. Imho it is
too
risky.
Bravo.
In an earlier encounter on this list, I got some pushback from people
who said parsing XML with regular expressions worked for them. I
believe them.
I just don't want to maintain their code.
Amy!
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