Comments on: Readability http://www.woxidu.com/2008/05/readability/ It's too dangerous to go alone. Take this. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 By: Eli http://www.woxidu.com/2008/05/readability/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:50:20 +0000 http://woxidu.com/2008/05/readability/#comment-113

Everyone I talk to about perl seems to hate it, yet it’s still around. Why is that?

Because as many people as there are who hate it, there’s just as many die-hard kiddies who think it’s the best thing on the planet. And honestly, it’s pretty cool for things that are regular-expression heavy. But that’s just because the language was built with regular expressions in mind. And while that’s cool, regular expressions have never been a shining example of readable code.

]]> By: Michael Hubbard http://www.woxidu.com/2008/05/readability/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:50:30 +0000 http://woxidu.com/2008/05/readability/#comment-112 I once had to work doing some coding in a bio lab, and taught myself a little perl to deal with big files containing dna sequences. I was also annoyed with perl, but for a slightly different reason. The syntax seemed loose to the point that I was worried even after my code had been interpreted without error. I was convinced that if I accidentally inserted a random character it wouldn’t give me a syntax error, but just interpret it as some weird perl shortcut and make my program do something drastically different than what I had originally intended.
Everyone I talk to about perl seems to hate it, yet it’s still around. Why is that?

]]> By: Tim Broder http://www.woxidu.com/2008/05/readability/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Tue, 27 May 2008 14:20:42 +0000 http://woxidu.com/2008/05/readability/#comment-111 couldn’t agree more. python ftw!

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