“perl is like marx: great at identifying the problems, terrible at formulating the solution”

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Amy Hoy (@amyhoy.bsky.social)

perl is like marx: great at identifying the problems, terrible at formulating the solution

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@thomasfuchs Reminds me of the place I worked for a while, where they'd built a CRUD web app in Perl and MongoDB: exactly backwards from the right way to go about it.

I didn't last long there.

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@thomasfuchs [I don't pretend to proselytize on "the one" right way to do it, I'm a PHP-head myself, but I know their "unexplained data loss" events had a cause they weren't willing to look at...]