Oh, and whether "can't do with regex" is the same as "can't do with Perl".
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Cordell" <>
To: "Amelia A Lewis" <>; <>
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
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Amelia A Lewis" <>
> To: <>
> 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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