P Kishor wrote:
> 
> only badly written Perl, or Perl specifically written to be obfuscated
> such as in Perl golf, is inscrutable. Well written Perl (I practice as
> close to literal programming in Perl as possible) is quite pleasant
> and easy to read.
> 

This quote is from O'Reilly's Learning Perl (the Llama book) by Randal 
Schwartz and Tom Phoenix (experts in Perl I believe).

"Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to 
the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with 
a mission in life."

So I'm not the only one who thinks the syntax has room for improvement. :-)

Dennis Cote


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