Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:30:04 -0400 From: Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re[2]: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! Message-ID: <20070704121712.20F6.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCCEDGCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <20070703163610.GA6012@ayn.mi.celestial.com> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCCEDGCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On July 04, 2007 at 09:53AM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: [snip] > Actually perl has a lot of problems too. One of the biggest is that > perl script writers always seem to think like you, in that perl is > consistent across all platforms. > > The biggest problems I've seen with perl scripts are when people use > perl extensions that are not on the system. You then have to go find > the extension they use and very few of the perl script writers seem > to be smart enough to put a section at the beginning of their scripts > that define the CPAN location of the particular extensions they are > using. The second biggest problem is perl script writers using > constructs that are valid in Perl 5.6 and later but not valid in > Perl 5.0 I don't know how many times I've wanted to strangle > someone when trying to run a perl script under Perl 5.0 that had > ONE single friggin statement in the entire thousand line script that > isn't valid under 5.0 but is under 5.6 And I've also run across > a number of Perl extensions that won't run under 5.0 as well, even > though the authors are supposed to regression test under 5.0 I was under the impression that Perl 5.6.0 was released on 2000-Mar-22, while Perl 5.000 was issued on or about 1994-Oct-17. For the life of me, I cannot comprehend why anyone would be using such an antiquated version. I have a rather limited knowledge of Perl; however, I am not going to be bothered regression testing it under a seven year old obsoleted version. I believe that FreeBSD-3.4 was released around 12/21/1999 or there about. Should we also be testing against that version also? -- Gerard
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