On 2026-04-02 02:37:58, Steve Litt wrote:
> >IMHO, perl is a great language - provided that one only uses a subset
> >of its capabilities.
>
> Ah, but *which* subset? Everyone uses their own. And if one starts
> using OOP, doesn't it seem like it invariably turns into volleyball
> code, where every class knows details of every other class? This isn't
> just Perl OOP, it's a lot of OOP including Javascript. And don't get me
> started on the undefined, undefinable "MVC architecture".

That reminds me of how I got a job as a C++ programmer, but I have never
bothered to actually learn C++.

C++ is such a large complex language that everyone uses a subset of it, a
different subset for each of us. C is a suitable subset of C++, by
design, hence the name. As an accomplished C programmer, I could easily
get away with mostly writing C++ as if it was C.