Re: [Bug-gne]Programming the front/backend

[Bob Dodd]

--- Tom Chance <address@hidden> wrote:
> On this writing the software note, who here in the
> list (apart from Jimmy, I know you can do it but
> you're busy with Nupedia!) can program in Perl,and can
> use things like a mySQL database, mod_backhand... that
> sort of stuff? Becuase I assume (false assumption?)
> that we will be using that sort of technology in the
> final solution, so it'd be good to work out who's
> going to be able to do it. I am learning Perl, and
> have been writing morcels of code necessary (basically
> just taking the input fields and sticking them into a
> file for now... haven't got onto database access of
> yet!). Anyone else?
> 
> Tom Chance

Actually, I used to do Perl for a living...  I worked for Control
Data's e-business division for a while, and we used Perl to tailor our
X.500 directory services and mailhub to customer requirements. Mind
you, we're going back a few years here to the days of Perl 4 :-)) We'd
moved on to Perl 5 before I left, which was an improvement of sorts.
Like the way -18C here in Helsinki last week was an improvement on the
-23C we had the month before...(automatic variables, shock horror :-))

To this day, I still don't understand the enthusiasm people have for
Perl. I know it's "free", that there's a big set of libraries
available, and that the camel looks kind of cute, but still... A year
of working 10 hour days reverse-engineering, fixing, and extending
other people's write-only Perl scripts is no joke, I promise you.


/bob
   


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