On Friday, May 24, 2002, at 07:15 , Harry Jackson wrote:
> --- Felix Geerinckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yearly posting statistics for perl.beginners - 2001.
>
> What would be really clever is if you could do the same sort of stats
> for good code ;-). I would not feature in the top ten of any timescale.
the problem here is resolving the metric of analysis for 'good code'.
Just because in our youth we did:
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) =
localtime(time);
as clearly more 'self documenting code' that we would
be able to follow when we were older, and God's Clue that it was
time to trim our beard was the coffee stain pattern on
our shirt is no reason NOT to steal say:
# you gotta give ovid points for sheer weirdness
# never retype what you can cut and paste - may complements.
my @t=localtime;$t[4]++;$t[5]+=1900;
my $dtg = sprintf("%4d-%02d-%02d",@t[5,4,3]);
When we are long in the tooth, and no longer cared at all
if the younger generation got 'self documenting code' from
us - I mean we had to hand hack our code the old fashion
way when we were growing up and you didn't find us Whining
about having to get up in the morning and chop papyrii by hand,
and beat it flat on a rock with a stick to make punch cards.....
ciao
drieux
---
now where was I going about Binary Coded Roman Numerals,
Why if they were good enough for Jesus.....
Kids these days, all enthralled by this Hindoo notion
of Zero, and want to be trendy with that 'arabic'
numeral system - like as If that's gonna last....
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