Re: Re: Opinions / Votes Needed
| From: | Eric Butera | Date: | Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:46:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Opinions / Votes Needed | ||
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
> I think that's at best an example of someone having chosen the wrong
> tool. I can easily appreciate the frustration. My own rule-of-thumb -
> scripts are for small things and rapid prototyping. Once when a script
> (regardless of language) grows towards 1000 lines, start thinking about
> writing it in C (or whatever else is appropriate). I know of too many
> situations where thousands of lines of script code have turned into
> maintenance nightmares.
Sorry to deviate from the thread, but I wanted to talk about this
point for a second. Are you serious? Do you write php extensions for
every app and have tons of them on your server?