Reference Moonpig - A Billing System That Doesn't Suck

[mahmoudimus]

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

[mahmoudimus]

• 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