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Perl/CPAN wins hands down. And I am both a Perl and a Java programmer.
by mike-cardwell 16y ago
Perl/CPAN wins hands down.
And I am both a Perl and a Java programmer.
- tybris 16y agoWell, except in code quality.
- astrodust 16y agoThere's some awfully shady Java code out there, but since it looks impressive with all those abstract bases and factories you can't see the real problems. A 12,0000 line Java program with the same features and the same bugs as a 500 line Perl script is going to look clean in comparison even though it's just as crappy.
- tybris 16y agoSure, but in case of Perl the shady code is on a big pile with the good code. In Java you have projects like Apache commons that generally produce fairly good code as long as you steer clear of the experimental stuff.
- chromatic 16y agoSure, but in case of Perl the shady code is on a big pile with the good code. Does Java have anything comparable to CPAN Testers? http://www.cpantesters.org/ http://www.cpantesters.org/ Note that commits to Perl 5 get tested against the whole of CPAN for unintentional breakage.
- retube 16y agoYes - CPAN is tremendous. I don't understand why perl is not more popular for this alone.