On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 06:29:24AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 09:12:30PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > > Only vaguely. I'm a bit embarassed by them, actually. I think my > > original twistyness has devolved to Obfuperl, and *that* has > > contributed to people thinking that Perl is really inherently > > obfuscated, which undermines what *I* would like to see how Perl is > > perceived in the marketplace. So it may have backfired. Maybe > > Obfuperl would have been come about some other way, but I'm sure my > > JAPHs were a contributing factor. > > Frankly, I doubt that's true. There's a obfuscated C contest, but > that doesn't make people think C is inherently obfuscated.
Apples and Oranges--from where I sit at least. The obfuscated C contest is far less a part of the C culture compared with JAPHs, Golf, etc in the Perl culture. That could have something to do with the perception. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408) 349-7878 Fax: (408) 349-5454 Cell: (408) 685-5936
