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Re: off topic - diff for html docs?




On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:

> Am I right that you consider program being harder to maintain (by a green,
> yellow, red or any other colored or colorless shmuck, which as well could

It is not harder to maintain, you simply don't **** around with an online
system. Schmocks require some time to understand that. Some places can't
afford the oopses that occur meanwhile. They have the source, and
instructions...

> be you or me coming to some new workplace) a *benefit*?  It seems teamwork
> guidelines are fatally broken in the place where you work. Sorry about
> that, but that's not Perl's fault, obviously ;)

If by teamwork you mean, open up wide and wait, we have a misunderstanding
here. I'm afraid it's permanent. Also, this is not 'the place where I
work'. FYI in a normal workplace (by this I mean, that those workplaces
which we subsidize by taxes, are not normal), there is concurrence between
workers, people get fired sometimes, and in general things have a mind of
their own doing stuff by themselves, never to the better ;(

Perl is a programming language, so it cannot be at fault. I'm sorry if
I've insulted your present mistress, however. I'm also amazed by the speed
with which you draw conclusions. Where did you learn this ? Do the people
where you work now, know about your potential ?

BTW, re: fast perl, try to look at the people who have done the work for
embedded Perl (libraries) and ask yourself why they did this. Also why 90%
of code that is to be robust and fast is NOT interpreted, why people spent
so much time doing compilers. And since we're at it, when is the first
Perl compiler sheduled ? 

Peter