Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Linux Crashing Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:06:36 -0600 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <8j29lg5kteuqhn9o9ophsgfp7afi7o2894@4ax.com> <68e9lg1q6m6phvi6m7mibhljvib8gdt1hq@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net simj5OtkfC5rBnRgpV3ahQz1aHuMb/ZHolFm2lPI2Owh7quyVu Cancel-Lock: sha1:z+7pqbJbYYI41JXt68bTBSABylU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4508 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594882 sci.physics:833324 On 09/30/2021 05:03 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 30/09/2021 04:00, rbowman wrote: >> Speaking of road to hell, there's Perl trotting down it. > > I couldn't agree more. > > I always felt like strangling PERL gurus. And regexp gurus. They knew > everything there was to know about the languages, except how to write a > simple, maintainable, comprehensible and useful program in them. > > > There are a few Perl scripts floating around that were written by a couple of support people who are long gone. If asked about them, my reply is they are not one of our released tools so good luck. There are also a couple of SQL statements an employee known as Evil Ryan spent months crafting. At one point they failed because an older DB2 release only had a 4k buffer. They are a tour de force of SQL functions, aggregates, cases, and joins, all on one line. They are about 20 years old, usually work, and are passed on through the generations because nobody understands what they're doing and are reluctant to touch them. A lot of legacy Perl is the same.