On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 04:17 AM, drieux wrote:
> may I request an official volume or on:
>
> "How to recover from having adopted peculiar coding
> habits you picked up on the net and should never have
> thought were a reasonable approach to solvi
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 10:54 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
[..]
> Now, the next step would be to write a book that is "how to spend your
> *second* 40 hours with Perl...". :)
while that sorta sounds like a joke - it might help some of the
folks I know - sober as a judge
may I request a
> "Drieux" == Drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Drieux> I have the first printing from 1991 version - does this version have
Drieux> a name??? So that when I mention it, I can use the culturally
Drieux> accepted term. This remains the dog eared, coffee stained,
Drieux> fast thumber - in
On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 06:21 , Bill -Sx- Jones wrote:
>> --boring, cautious, obvious over commented code--
>
> Nothing wrong with being OVERLY cautious, especially if YOU expect to
> understand why you did what you did months or years later.
>
> I wrote a quick hack once to fix a short te
On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 07:59 , Puneet Kishor wrote:
[..]
>
> I still think the llama book is one of the best books I have ever read...
> I feel embarrassed to say that I read it as a book... a novel. What
> Randal achieved there is enormous (By the way, I still have the pink
> second ed
I started this thread some aeons back, and if some of you think it is
OT, sowwwy. but I just wanted to make a few comments...
I appreciate and feel encourage by Randal's comments, although I
wouldn't judge the PerlGolfers so harshly. Obviously, Randal is in a
distinctly different position than
> --boring, cautious, obvious over commented code--
Nothing wrong with being OVERLY cautious, especially if YOU expect to
understand why you did what you did months or years later.
I wrote a quick hack once to fix a short term problem - three years later
that code is STILL in use :( I can stil
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 18:12:37 -0400, ellem wrote:
> I'm a sys admin. I never told anyone I was a programmer. A few months
> ago I got yanked into a coder meeting and one of my Perl Scripts was on
> the wall in 4 foot glory and our manager was pointing out how NOT to
> write code. He never as
On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 01:54 , Gilmore-Baldwin, John wrote:
> I can't imagine a quicker way to destroy those last two qualities (eager
> and motivated) than to laugh at them for doing a little research (rtfm,
> so to speak), finding an answer to a problem and using it. In my
> experience,
Sorry. I know this is getting pretty far off topic. But...
I couldn't agree more with the first sentence of this post. "Show-off"
programming should only be used for entertainment, or not at all.
That said, I think there's a difference between a show-off programmer
(who may think he's really coo
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 12:54:56 -0500, Gilmore-Baldwin, John wrote:
> That said, I think there's a difference between a show-off programmer
> (who may think he's really cool and smart for writing code that nobody
> else can understand) and a person who's "new to perl" and using well
> regarded refer
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