On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:11 PM, John SJ Anderson <geneh...@genehack.org> wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2013, at 2:50 PM, David Crouse <da...@crouse.us> wrote: > >> Seriously, I took it as just funny... get off your soapbox. >> I'm fairly sure that the comment was just in good fun. > > I'm happy you were amused. I wasn't, and I imagine anybody that's had to deal > with the "Perl is a write-only language" perception wasn't too amused either. > > >> As a systems admin, i've had to "decipher" my share of perl, >> and while it "can" be written great, it "can" also be written poorly. > > Which makes Perl like, oh, every other programming language ever. I don't see > your point. > > j. > > > -- > John SJ Anderson // geneh...@genehack.org
Yeah I was amused... sorry you weren't. Perhaps you don't have a sense of humor idk. No...perl isn't like every other program language ever...if so, why are you using it and not something else. Because you like the way it works, it's syntax, whatever...you like it or you probably wouldn't be so defensive. I like it too, but the comment "It's Perl. The obfuscation is built in" was funny... the perl journal use to have "obfuscated code contests" if i remember correctly. The one line I like the best that I find humor and truth in: Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. ~ PERL BEST PRACTICES -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
