Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:35:06 -0600 (MDT) | From | Thunder from the hill <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 |
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Hi,
On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Larry McVoy wrote: > It's true that one can write supportable perl but noone but a naive person > would base a multiple platform, multi-year lifespan product on perl.
Perl is pretty useful for code generation and/or parsing, e.g. in order to find mistakes you did or to build the thing you've created. It can also be used to convert code. Thus I wouldn't say it's useless in an multiple-platform multi-year environment.
> All I'm saying is that thinking is greater than debuggers. Much > greater.
That's true, but no reason to eat people for breakfast coz they do use debuggers to get beyond where code does what wrong.
Thunder -- !assert(typeof((fool)->next) == typeof(fool));
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