Re: [xml-dev] parsing markup with Perl

["Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>]

My recollection is that the real crux of the debate amounted to whether 
"can't do X" and "shouldn't do X" mean the same thing!

Pete Cordell
Codalogic Ltd
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amelia A Lewis" <amyzing@talsever.com>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] parsing markup with Perl


> On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 16:20:27 +1100, Rick Jelliffe wrote:
> > The issue for corporate coding is not whether a well-managed disciplined
> > group of experienced programmers can turn out maintainable Perl (or any
> > language) code with the benefit of hindsight, but how fast the code sinks
> > into maintainability as soon as someone drips the ball (wrong design, 
> > wrong
> > review process, wrong experience, wrong texting, etc).  I don't think 
> > Perl
> > has a good track record, based on what I have seen at least. Imho it is 
> > too
> > risky.
> Bravo.
>
> In an earlier encounter on this list, I got some pushback from people
> who said parsing XML with regular expressions worked for them. I
> believe them.
>
> I just don't want to maintain their code.
>
> Amy!
>
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