That's because there seems to be three or four different ways to do the same thing in Perl. Plus, I think its actually a point of considerable pride amongst the Perl elite. ( There's actually a yearly code obfuscation contest.)
When I haven't looked at any Perl code in a few months, it almost looks Greek. But when I've been using it daily for a while it all makes disconcertingly good sense. But, then I purposely write my code in such a way that I have a better chance of reading it in the future, as it may be many months before I need to make any changes. Heavy use of Regular Expressions compound the problem, but they're just a cryptic in RB. -Matt --------------- > From: Norman Palardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: REALbasic NUG <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 09:18:50 -0700 > To: REALbasic NUG <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: The perl challenge > > > Perl CAN be used in a nice structured way but that's not the way you > usually see it done. It's often the "barfed punctuation on the > keyboard" style _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
