On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 09:01:40AM +0200, Richard van den Berg wrote: > On Thu, June 18, 2009 08:22, H. Langos wrote: > > Did I mention before that I hate perl? :-) > > In about every other post to this list. ;-) To me, the things about perl > that I sometimes hate let me very quickly write code that does what I want > at other times.
Well, thats what perl is good for .. one-shot programms and rapid prototypes. And I use it a lot for this purpose almost every day. For something sustainable you'd want a strongly typed language with a less fuzzy syntax. Sustainable meaning that development can be done by teams with changing members. With perl it seems you always need one person, or at least a strong core team to keep the code somewhat consistent. > When I started with the tunes2pod code I thought "damn, > this is going to be very hard to do". Then one hour later I was done and > it worked. :-) Good thing you mention tunes2pod. Please try to make your changes optional. Something like a "--merge" option to express that you are going to merge iTunesDB and GNUtunesDB.xml > >> Both forms are in use in the gnupod code at the moment, I just picked > >> the first.. > > > > Check if they are used for the same purpose. :-) > > They are. I'm very good at copy-and-paste and mimicking other people's > style. I realize that most of the gnupod code is not yours, so don't blame > me for using Adrian's coding style. :-) I still struggle to find a good coding style in perl myself. So no worries. cheers -henrik _______________________________________________ Bug-gnupod mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnupod
