Perl thread versus OpenBSD

Perl thread versus OpenBSD

Posted May 5, 2007 18:30 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet) by khim
Parent article: OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again (O'ReillyNet)

The issue comes down to culture versus language. One can write wonderfully nice bash, perl, awk, sed scripts that are readable and maintainable. One can write obscured python, etc that never does what one expects it to. The issue is the culture surrounding the languages and the ease to which one can tend towards line-noise.

Perl had for the longest time a set of people who felt that if you couldnt output line-noise, you didn't use the language correctly (or weren't man enough to handle the true power of Perl.)

Python has had a set of people where line-noise is un-acceptable but have their own 'you arent a real man unless you have figured out... blah'.

In the end, each works for a segment of the population as human brains are not wired uniformally. And all the arguments, yelling, pooping contests, are territory marking to try and gather a larger segment of a population to get the various genetics involved to spread another generation or two.

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