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


From: Bob Dodd
Subject: Re: [Bug-gne]Programming the front/backend
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 13:39:45 -0800 (PST)

--- Hook <address@hidden> wrote:
[snip]
> But there again, *any* language can be write-only if you get a bad
> enough programmer. I've done the same kind of job with C, and wanted 
> to take a blunt instrument to the originator.

True, but some languages positively revel in obfuscation, a sort of
"encryption by plain text" :-)) I'd put Perl in with that lot (but well
behind Forth...)

That said, out of our limited available/allowed languages, Perl is
probably the obvious choice for implementing our CGI (or whatever...)
scripts, and for dynamic generation of web pages. At least on the
submissions side of things: I hold strong opinions when it comes to
classifiers/search engines ;-)

One thing I don't think we should be using Perl for, is organising the
internals of the submitted entries. Perl isn't an efficient tool for
"database" implementations, dbm files or no dbm files...

/bob



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