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- From: jfriedl+@CS.CMU.EDU (Jeffrey Friedl)
- Subject: Re: Just another Perl hacker
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 03:17:38 GMT
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- |> >Ok, so why isn't there an Obfuscated Perl Contest?
- |>
- |> Every day is a Obfuscated Perl Contest.
-
- Other people have mentioned this, and I don't think it (should be) true.
- Poor programmers can write unreadable code in any language.
- Good programmers can write readable in any language.
-
- (Ok, so I made a gramatical mistake in using "poor" above, but I'm talking
- about programming languages, so I can claim to be a "good" programmer and
- still write unreadable English :-)
-
- If you can believe it, I've even seen (and written) non-trivial yet
- readable programs in FORTH.
-
- If a perl program or construct is not easily readable by someone with
- "reasonable" knowledge of perl (vagueness is intentional), perhaps it's
- been written poorly.
- (there, now I've got the usage of "poor" correct :-).
-
- *jeff*
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- Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl jfriedl@cs.cmu.edu -or- jfriedl@omron.co.jp
- Omron Corporation, Section RZE, Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo Kyoto 617, Japan
- Visiting researcher to the Mach Project, Carnegie Mellon University
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