Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Sure, we can write it in such a way that anyone can understand it, but
> why? One measure of how quickly a programmer can use a language bring
> his ideas to fruition is lines of code. Perl obviously wins there.
> It further wins by the easy access to power that is CPAN.
There is a place for quick and dirty one liners, but a public module
repository isn't it. Brevity can be elegant, but if your module is
obfuscated, unmaintainable, it's not doing what a module should. Put
understandable code on CPAN and that other stuff on T-shirts, slashdot
sigs, and your own machine.
Don't get me wrong, I've gotten some really great Perl code, along with
PHP, Python, etc. (I can't say I've seen any *great* FORTRAN code).
But I rarely get headaches from Python modules I've downloaded, but that
often happens with Perl.
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