Perl: panic! or stay with Perl, and re-engineer? - No Programming language is perfect - Strongly Type Languages might NOT have less bugs
GEP Launcher is/was some old x86 program, which was in an unfortunate manner, revealed to be written in Perl. Perl is a much maligned language, something like JavaScript, without the good parts. There is no compiler which in itself has the advantage to shorter iteration times during development, but then all checks and validations are performed only when the program is actually running. Originating in a lax kind of West Coast environment, Perl kind of "sits by the poolside" and lets you do what you want, no matter the consequences. A running joke is that almost anything can be interpreted by Perl: so, something like Regular Expressions, the code can be easy to write, but hard to read. And it's generally agreed that developers spend far more time reading than writing code. Unfortunately for fans of particular programming languages, it is difficult to objectively measure the prevalence of bugs with a particular language. Reports abound of how buggy C++ projects tend to be,...