Re^4: Moores Law, Perl and the future

[jdporter]

Well certainly you would think so. I think I'm pretty smart, too.

But as has been pointed out, your "XML" parser doesn't parse real XML, it parses a very simple syntax inspired by XML. Granted, for your purposes, that's sufficient. But it doesn't take a genius to make such a parser.

[Logicus]

Oh rubbish, a recursive descending parser isn't difficult, but why would someone want to write one when there is already a CPAN module for that? XML::Simple / twig / etc.

[GrandFather]

Wow, is that like: "Why would anyone want to design yet another templating system"?

[Logicus]

Yes why indeed, it's not like there isn't already a bunch of well developed templating systems, each of which comes with it's own proprietary logic control systems which have to be learned separately from the underlying perl which powers them. I can't possibly think of a reason to unify that situation, because if we did then people would only need to learn Perl and not Perl + a templating system, and well then it just might be too easy to be a perl programmer and we won't be able to demand such high wages.