Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 21:51:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mwm@mired.org (Mike Meyer) 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 Subject: Re: most complex code in BSD? Message-ID: <200106222151.OAA28766@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <15155.47930.698005.428088@guru.mired.org> from "Mike Meyer" at Jun 22, 2001 04:40:10 PM
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> > > 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
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