[geeks] Sun files suit against Microsoft

[David Cantrell]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 09:23:49AM -0800, Tyler Hardison wrote:
> On Saturday 09 March 2002 08:44, you wrote:
> >   Happy, perhaps...but unreadable, unmaintainable, and slower than
> > pissing tar. ;)
> Unreadable? Unmaintainable? Slow?  What Perl are you using? But then again in 
> Perl you *can* make it as unreadable as you want, but only evil programmers 
> do that.

No, inexperienced programmers do it too.  It's much easier to write 'orrid
code in perl than in several other languages.  But yeah, whoever you quoted
is still wrong :-)

>           As far as speed, I cant atest to that since I dont write Java. But 
> inserting 4000 records an hour into Postgres isnt something to blikn at 
> either.

That's only just over one per second - not great at all.  But IME, both
Postgres and perl can do much better than that.  It seems that the pg
drivers for perl suck.

Oh GOOD sigmonster!

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