Some programmers like to make it ugly because they equate ugly programming with job security.
You can make it as translucent as a shell script.
take->that!
]]>Quote of the month for Phrak!
]]>Most of perl code including regex is based on the exisiting commands..
ex.. sed /^hello$/...
I have not found a limitation to perl other than running out of ideas..
One thing that is a pain is gett;n used to "use strict;" and installing
modules from scratch...
Joe
phrakture wrote:you can tell perl is evil, because there's more contests to make obfuscated perl code than anything else
How on earth could that be a contest? I mean, 'hello world' in PERL is pretty obfuscated...
Dusty
Just saw a funny quote:
"There's no obfuscated Perl contest because it's pointless" - Jeff Polk (co-creator of CVS)
I agree.
]]>* reaching for the Tylenol *
omg! people have way too much free time on their hands.
]]>Perl hackers?
My point exactly!!!
Arch_user.likes(KISS)
Perl_hacker.prefers(obfuscated_code)
return Perl_hacker.equals(Arch_user)
**false
(That was some weirdass combination of prolog, Python, Java, and the language inside my head)
Dusty
]]>Who wants to edit and hack perl scripts?
Perl hackers?
]]>you ever see the crap where the code looks like ascii art? those are the best
Yeah... Hello World in Perl
Dusty
]]>phrakture wrote:you can tell perl is evil, because there's more contests to make obfuscated perl code than anything else
How on earth could that be a contest? I mean, 'hello world' in PERL is pretty obfuscated...
Dusty
you ever see the crap where the code looks like ascii art? those are the best
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