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" <>
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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