If you catch me using a butcher knife to get the cork out of a wine bottle, feel free to call me a fool. That shouldn't reflect badly on the makers of knives or corkscrews or wine bottles.
i've seen the products of people who write code professionally, with them having learned through years of coding perl, and it is not pretty. lots of them.
I've read a lot of code from people who've never learned a whit about programming. The lesson I take from that experience is that some languages make it easy for people who aren't interested in programming to get things done without having to learn much about programming or design or maintenance or coding standards.
That said, warnings and strictures should have been the language's default behavior for programs, not one-liners.
If you catch me using a butcher knife to get the cork out of a wine bottle, feel free to call me a fool. That shouldn't reflect badly on the makers of knives or corkscrews or wine bottles.
i've seen the products of people who write code professionally, with them having learned through years of coding perl, and it is not pretty. lots of them.
I've read a lot of code from people who've never learned a whit about programming. The lesson I take from that experience is that some languages make it easy for people who aren't interested in programming to get things done without having to learn much about programming or design or maintenance or coding standards.
That said, warnings and strictures should have been the language's default behavior for programs, not one-liners.