First, I've had some opinions on this "one language" ideal After PERL what?. We have a variety of languages for a good reason: the languages express different kinds of things. Shell command languages really have little to do with markup languages, database manipulation languages or "general-purpose" programming languages.
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more ...In my case, the opacity of Perl actually wasn't entirely my opinion. I was contacted by folks that were struggling with Perl. In one case, they specifically lifted up the opacity problem. "If my partner gets hit by the bus, I can't maintain these web sites."
In the other case …
more ...Perl's old. And Perl is without shame about adopting every syntax gimmick on earth. Consequently, Perl has accreted enough features that Perl programs are hard to read, making them impossible to maintain. More thoughts on this opacity problem in Gadgetopia http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/1919 and Freshmeat …
While some spread-sheet use is civilized numerical stuff, and other spread-sheet use is merely personal organization, too much spread-sheet use is the poor-person's database management system. I call it the Spreadsheet Schema (SSS), different from normalized relational schema and star schema.
There is a serious problems with people using spreadsheets …
more ...MS AntiSpyware "free" beta http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx. Also, it appears http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2005/11/microsoft_antis_1.html to be called Windows Defender.
eWeek's slavish lack of clue http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1872253,00.asp; Paul Thurott's lack …
more ...Kontrawize says http://kontrawize.blogs.com/kontrawize/2005/11/java_is_the_new.html that Java is the new assembler.
/dev/null http://www.haloscan.com/comments/slott/E20051101105604/#27166 says "While we are willing to expose and discuss the problems in Java, we do it because we want to improve it, not …
more ...Check this out for a new model of software development. Why hire full-time developers when your business is not software development? Why rent contract labor? Why not just buy the custom software?
Note that your own internal QA processes have to be top-shelf to do this. Internal staff can screw …
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