My Abusive Relationship with Perl February 24, 2006

I've decided that Perl is pretty much like crack; a simple pleasure with unpleasant consequences.

I've had to write a lot of stupid little Perl scripts lately. While I love the quick hacks that I can put together with Perl, once one starts, one cannot stop. A Perl script here and there inevitably breeds itself into a mass of interconnected sludge, glued together loosely by some crappy little tidbits of Perl. Although Perl often leads to quick and easy solutions, it also encourages messiness and unmaintainability, which is why I both love and hate Perl. I abuse Perl, and Perl abuses me. At least there is some level of equality in this relationship.

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2 Comments

  • 1 Nicholas

    Posted February 24, 2006 at 6:12 am
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    Sounds like. "He hits me cause he loves me." I know those bruises are from pearl and not falling down the stairs and I think you should get out of this abusive relationship.

  • 2 Murray

    Posted February 26, 2006 at 1:28 am
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    hey man
    thanks for the b-day shout. Much appreaciated.
    I bought myself an extrenal hadr drive so i can back up. I think i have imminent HD failure on my internal storage disk, so i figured a little back up would be good.
    miss ya, drank some great wine and thought of ya,
    Murray

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