AW: regex for html img... tags
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Frankly, I doubt that's true. There's a obfuscated C contest, but that doesn't make people think C is inherently obfuscated. People *do* think it is. Abigail Joachim
Re: AW: regex for html img... tags
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Pense, Joachim wrote:
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Frankly, I doubt that's true. There's a obfuscated C contest, but that
doesn't make people think C is inherently obfuscated.
People *do* think it is.
In my experience the single most confusing aspect of Perl to beginners
is the need to use $, @, and % in front of variable names. They don't see
the beauty in it and some get downright angry when they learn that to
access an array element you have to use $array[2] instead of @array[2], or
to access a hash element you'd use $hash{key} instead of %hash{key}.
The regular expressions don't help much either. :-)
Cheers,
Bernard
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Re: AW: regex for html img... tags
Bernard == Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bernard They don't see the beauty in it and some get downright angry
Bernard when they learn that to access an array element you have to
Bernard use $array[2] instead of @array[2], or to access a hash
Bernard element you'd use $hash{key} instead of %hash{key}.
And how angry will *we* be, when we've got to relearn that the way
they wanted it to work is the way it *does* work in Perl6!
:-)
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