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Reference Moonpig - A Billing System That Doesn't Suck #75

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mahmoudimus opened this issue Dec 19, 2013 · 1 comment

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mahmoudimus commented Dec 19, 2013

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1t74nh/moonpig_a_billing_system_that_doesnt_suck/

http://perl.plover.com/classes/Moonpig/

http://blog.plover.com/2013/12/17/#Moonpig

ping @rjbs @mjdominus

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mahmoudimus commented Dec 19, 2013

Times and time zones suck
Floating-point arithmetic sucks
It sucks to fix your mangled data after an automated process fails
Testing a yearlong sequence of events sucks
It sucks to have your automated test accidentally send a bunch of bogus invoices to the customers
Rounding errors suck
Relational databases usually suck
Modeling objects in the RDB really really sucks
Perl's garbage collection sucks
OO inheritance sucks

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