On 8/27/08, Dennis Cote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. :-)
The keyword in the quote above is "sometimes" which is the same as "unintentionally badly written or intentionally obfuscated" -- here is the quote through a filter -- "Yes, unintentionally badly written or intentionally obfuscated Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer..." usually this kind of code is produced by those new, trying to show off, or being competitive on purpose (as in a Perl golf competition), or just for kicks. It doesn't have any place in serious, production code, so there is much Perl code that is very lovely to read. But, my apologies for the small digression -- on to more pertinent SQLite-related discussions. > > Dennis Cote > > > -- Puneet Kishor _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
