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> your ad hoc script has to become a full-fledged program The very second a quick and dirty script grows into a full-fledged program, it immediately becomes te

• dkarl 3y ago
  If by "technical debt" you mean something that requires updates and maintenance, then yes, because it's a living language. Perl has the advantage of being frozen in time, but it has the disadvantages of not being a living language: younger programmers not being prepared or willing to touch it, likely less library support for newer technologies. That constitutes technical debt as well, albeit of a different kind.
• iso1631 3y ago
  > The very second a quick and dirty script grows into a full-fledged program, it immediately becomes technical debt. It often becomes a business asset which delivers far more value to the business than any maintenance (often very low) which is needed