Re: [xml-dev] parsing markup with Perl

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

Oh, and whether "can't do with regex" is the same as "can't do with Perl".

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@codalogic.com>
To: "Amelia A Lewis" <amyzing@talsever.com>; <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] parsing markup with Perl


> 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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