Comments on: Perl: Old and crufty? http://www.jasonporritt.com/perl-old-and-crufty/ software development et al. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 04:17:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: David Underhill http://www.jasonporritt.com/perl-old-and-crufty/comment-page-1/#comment-262 David Underhill Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:19:13 +0000 http://www.jasonporritt.com/?p=95#comment-262 I wanted you to know how much I enjoyed your "Old and Crufty" post. I have been writing code professionally for over 15 years and for personal enjoyment since the late 70's. I started copying programs in basic out of book on a old TRS-80 model III. During all my years, I have tried to write great code the first time but you are right, anyone that cares about the code they write will always re-write it better the next time than the last. I have always believed that a language is a language. There are of course syntactical procedural differences between them but a good programmer can write good code in any language. In all my years of learning the newest, coolest language, I have found that they are all more the same than different. I think the measure of a language is if it is still doing it's job effectively which is to convert the requirements given to the programmer into machine code which satisfy those requirements. I wanted you to know how much I enjoyed your “Old and Crufty” post. I have been writing code professionally for over 15 years and for personal enjoyment since the late 70’s. I started copying programs in basic out of book on a old TRS-80 model III. During all my years, I have tried to write great code the first time but you are right, anyone that cares about the code they write will always re-write it better the next time than the last.
I have always believed that a language is a language. There are of course syntactical procedural differences between them but a good programmer can write good code in any language. In all my years of learning the newest, coolest language, I have found that they are all more the same than different. I think the measure of a language is if it is still doing it’s job effectively which is to convert the requirements given to the programmer into machine code which satisfy those requirements.

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