> There is often a description, a type, bandied at Perl that you cannot build an application in the language in a short period of time…
I have…never heard this, and in the absence of anyone else’s opinion I’d assume the opposite. When I want to get something done quickly, Perl is one of my go-to languages. Of course, the final product might not be as maintainable as it could otherwise have been, but that’s to be expected when you focus on working code rather than pretty code.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 18.6 ms ] threadI have…never heard this, and in the absence of anyone else’s opinion I’d assume the opposite. When I want to get something done quickly, Perl is one of my go-to languages. Of course, the final product might not be as maintainable as it could otherwise have been, but that’s to be expected when you focus on working code rather than pretty code.