On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 12:42:17 -0500, "Simon St.Laurent"
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| More fun for the crowd here.
Ah yes, the usual and predictable Perl Hatefest. (Disclaimer: I wrote
my first Perl program in 1992, the latest one a week ago, and I apply
inliners daily.)
No doubt there is bad, if not very bad, Perl code out there, in great
abundance. Perl is *NIX-y that way, being not really interested in
protecting the less-than-proficient user from stupidity. But if you
know what you're doing, Perl is an extraordinarily versatile tool.
That said, it is certainly poor - no, make that egregious - Perl
practice to use regexes to parse markup. As the article linked to
makes clear, that's a solved problem already - there is no excuse not
to use modules.
In fact, that applies to practically any language being used today to
wrestle with pointy-bracketed text, with the possible exception of
PHP. Which, as has also been noted in this thread, may be the real
source of the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth: that regexes are
*still* being used for one-off markup parsing tasks.
But why blame Perl, other than it's the language eveyone loves to
hate? (Actually, I thought that would be C++.)
