From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 22 14:47:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [64.211.219.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5F437B407 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:47:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01560; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:47:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAeXaqad; Fri Jun 22 14:47:36 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA28766; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:51:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200106222151.OAA28766@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: most complex code in BSD? To: mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer) Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:51:41 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tobez@tobez.org (Anton Berezin), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org (j mckitrick), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15155.47930.698005.428088@guru.mired.org> from "Mike Meyer" at Jun 22, 2001 04:40:10 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Anything with "perl" code in it: it's a write-only programming > > > language, useful only for throw-away code. > > Wow, wow. Opinions are strong here, aren't they? ;-) > > I happen to think that Terry is wrong, and you can write perfectly > readable code in Perl. I even hope some day to see an example. Heh. Perl rivals APL as "the best language to use if you want to swing a dead cat at the keyboard and end up with a running program". Anyone else remember TECO lottery? You baged down on a bunch of random keys on the keyboard in command mode, and then you tried to figure out what it would actually do to the edit buffer as a result of hitting return. If you were right, you won... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message