Re: [hybi] Is there a traffic jam?

[Ian Hickson <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Thomson, Martin wrote:
>
> Because all 12 year olds use strict and -T.

I was using their equivalents in the language(s) I used when I was 12. 
It's good hygiene. But it doesn't really matter either way for this code.


> I must admit that my perl is getting a wee bit rusty, but that's a 
> non-trivial piece of code.

Come now. It's barely 100 lines of code, just doing basic network I/O. My 
friends and I were writing far more complex code at 12, and I'm hardly a 
good programmer. Most of the constructs are copied straight from online 
tutorials on Perl networking.


> I hope that you are about to argue that most of that code is going to be 
> provided by Net::WebSocket or something similar.

It seems reasonable for such a library to exist, but I don't think it is 
reasonable to expect that libraries will exist, no. That's the point. You 
don't need a library. It's no more than a couple of hours' worth of coding 
for a novice like me (I'm no professional programmer).


> Otherwise, there's more than enough rope left there to hang a number of 
> software engineers that I know (admittedly, not the better ones).

The same could be said of "Hello World" in most languages, especially 
Perl. Just think how much more complex this example would be if the 
protocol was more than just sentinel-delimited frames. :-)

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