[Info-vax] BASIC (was Re: 64-bit)

[Chris Townley]

On 13/01/2024 19:18, John Reagan wrote:
> On 1/12/2024 7:09 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 12/01/2024 06:15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:40:47 -0500, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>
>>>> Basic in my opinion does strings very well.
>>>
>>> Only if you measure it by the pre-Perl era.
>>
>> Perl is the work of the devil!
>>
> 
> I actually like Perl and did a whole bunch of scripting with it
> during my time with HP-UX and NonStop compilers.

What put me off Perl was years ago, an idiot in our UK Support team was 
tasked with changing a mass of email addresses (due to a domain change) 
in a large number of scripts in HPUx

He googled and found a Perl script he didn't understand, copied it and 
ran it on the production scripts directory. Net result chaos,with pretty 
much every script failing due to syntax errors. So at about 20:30 the UK 
support leader came into my office.  We spent about 4 hours fixing as 
best we could, but I left one sysadmin script owned by me (it wasn't a 
very important script) so it failed in the morning. I got called in the 
IT director the following morning for wasting my time as a developer.No 
thought of 8 man hours wasted, nor the pratt who caused it...

-- 
Chris