No compiling downtime.
but seriously?
lilstevey on 2007-08-18T00:24:33
Ok, so xkcd is a little on the popular side, but...
I feel that it touches on one of perls greatest weaknesses - never knowing if a subroutene is unused, and subsequently the fear of deletion - the danger of inevitable kruft has always been in my eyes perls' achilles heel.
I love the language to bits - though I admit I don't use it enough, the failure of other programming mediums to understand
return if argument rubish continues to disapoint.
Its just that having a language that seems to err on the dynamic as possible side of the fence, I feel facilitates the argument that it could give the novice too much power, and if I ran a business could give me a source of worry - programmers wages are expensive enough without worrying about the accidental damage they can do to your business.
Is it really wrong to ensure that a programmer requesting to perform the dark arts knows which end of the broom to grab?
Disclaimer: just back from pub.
