Re: Thoughts on maintaining perl

[Chris Nandor]

At 19.31 +0000 2000.05.25, Simon Cozens wrote:
>Chris Nandor (lists.advocacy):
>>I'm unconvinced.  I think perhaps if it stops me in my tracks like that,
>>then it perhaps is not well-written.
>
>While I completely agree with you, I think you're now verging on begging
>the question - all well-written code is easy to read, because if it
>isn't easy to read, it's not well-written.

Exactly.  He had said:

>That's easy - pick any random piece of code from CPAN.
>(or just from the well written subset :-). The odds are
>high that it uses some idiom you aren't familir with and
>will stop you in your tracks when you are trying to
>debug through it in detail.

I was just noting that won't happen (or will happen only very rarely) with
well-written code.  It's practically definitional.

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