Well I think he was alluding to a more subtle point, which is it
may be readable to individuals but because of Perls ability to do things
in oh so many different ways what may be readable to you might not be
readable to most others, it is not because someone is trying to be obscure
but because Perl is so flexiable. The problem is when you need to maintain
large amounts of code this flexibilty starts to become more of burden
especially when you have a large group of developers. i.e.
perl -e'use English ; print $PID, "\n", $$, ' "\n" '
I am quite sure there are many who are only familar with one
method of getting the PID, so something as simple as getting a PID can
leave an unfamilar user confused.
I strongly believe good standards are essential to building secure
software and it is just very hard to build a standard around Perl, I have
tried it is not easy.
From what I hear and read many companies are moving to Python
specifically because large Perl code bases are just hard to maintain in
large development envirnoments.
my $0.02
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, ___cliff rayman___ wrote:
> > c) tends to be legible.
>
> beauty is in the eye of the beholder. perl is much more legible to
> me than c++, and i prefer c++ legibility to many other languages.
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