On Jan 18, 2004, at 11:58 PM, Gabor Urban wrote:
I might know something for an answer. Though Perl is really good and fantastic, flexibole, etc. it has the bad reputation being hard to read. An average manager wants his or her stuff to be clean and neat. Seeing a tricky Perl code with regexp stuff is rather alarming.
On the other hand Python seems to boom these days (but not MUCH better readability..) as was Java before.
My compliments to your wit!
As most folks know, there are the obligatory "obfuscatory <yourProgrammingLanguageHere> contests" that are designed to establish the specific 'unreadablity' standards for a given language. Perl, like all proper modern languages, has such a contest.
I remember back in 1991 when the Pythonites were trying to sell the idea that it was better than Perl4 because unlike Perl4, it was natively OO-ish, hence cooler by the HipBuzzDuJure...
A part of the problem with these 'language comparison' types of problem remains how to differenciate the merely comical from the simply amusing aspects about why the advocates advocate using Foo over Bar. If one stumbles into the 'read ability' giggler, then one should deal with the 'real issue' of "so why did you accept the code without the Proper POD and internal comments?"
ciao drieux
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