Leo Brodie's book has been given the open treatment and is available
for free online.
Cheers,
Luis.
On 29 Jan 2008, at 13:28, Andre Garzia wrote:
Mark,
can we say that is impossible to write elegant perl now since perl
always look bad...
On a side reference, I've been reading both "On lisp" and "Thinking
Forth", very nice books with very nice and elegant code.
Andre
On 1/28/08, Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Eric Raymond's talking about Perl vs Python here, but the point's
valid (if
you're reading the article online, just ignore the comments)
"Also, I found I was spending more and more time wrestling with
artifacts of
the language rather than my application problems. And, most
damning of all,
the resulting code was ugly-this matters. Ugly programs are like ugly
suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than
pretty ones,
because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive
beauty is
intimately related to our ability to process and understand
complexity. A
language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to
write
good code."
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882
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