[geeks] One of these days....

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 06:22:12PM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> I'm going to remember that writing and debugging 10 lines of perl is
> 100,000 times harder than writing the same code in C.

every time i work on a damn perl script i always end up saying "if i had written
this in C i'd have been done a LONG FUCKING TIME AGO"

gonna have to take another stab at it again soon, need to rewrite that script
i wrote for work using the Excel Spreadsheet writing module since i don't really
care to write an excel library in C.  although i should.  it would seriously
rock.

> And here I was thinking I could have it all done in 10 minutes.  45
> minutes later, I'm switching to C after trying to figure out how a
> variable disappeared between one line and the next.

welcome to perl.  please watch your step.

-brian
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