>It wasn't a problem at all, because your average maintenance job is "something was moved" or "we're switching out X for Y", but not "we need to rewrite this complex system that is a Perl script for some reason".
I would intuitively agree with you as there are hundreds of unnoticeable perl scripts doing their job, but as someone with moderate experience with the language, I can say that when I did maintenance tasks, they were mostly the second kind.
I would intuitively agree with you as there are hundreds of unnoticeable perl scripts doing their job, but as someone with moderate experience with the language, I can say that when I did maintenance tasks, they were mostly the second kind.