brevity is the soul of wit
mr Dzuiba writes:
< Perl programmers have long ensured their own job security by writing code that the machines themselves have trouble understanding,>
Alas, other languages have their foibles too. Java programmers ensure their job security by writing so much code noone can be bothered to find out where it breaks, and a new system architect is called in. Pythonistas believe in the banal/specious dictum that everything is an object, including time/number/etc. few people argue it really makes their code more readable anyway, beyond trite wee examples, now the new language honeymoon period is over. obfuscation abounds in every higher order language, with or without lack of punctuation.
what matters in maintaining code is conciseness, style, brevity, and dare I say a sense of fun.
perl has all of the above, in bags.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
