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> it's always a hacked-together mess from an engineer who's likely no longer with the company. (obviously this is VERY anecdotal to my career) That's what prog
by Touche 7y ago
> it's always a hacked-together mess from an engineer who's likely no longer with the company. (obviously this is VERY anecdotal to my career)
That's what programming is.
- folkhack 7y ago> That's what programming is. In my realm I need things to be supportable by lots of people. I use languages that are modern + people want to use, I document like crazy, I use opinionated frameworks that have good track records, I need to hire engineers that can support the code I/others write, etc etc. I don't find your comment to be true, and will even go as far to say I've worked with very clean legacy code. Tangential: If you look at any "popularity of language" studies Perl has been on a downward spiral for over a decade. Ex: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/perl/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/perl/ I see "well that's just x" as a poor argument for, well... anything.
- DonHopkins 7y agoFalse equivalence. I'd choose a hacked-together mess from an engineer who's likely no longer with the company written in Python over Perl any day.