What really got me was when the author presented the
problem of implicit variables, which can get rather
messy in the wrong hands. However, his example of printing
the first 10 digits, well 1 - 10, was far
from complete. He completely left out this one:
print foreach (1..10);
which totally trumps being "two shades removed from
perfectly clear" - show that code next to a C-style loop and
ask people on the street which is easier to comprehend.
On the other side, I find I do have to step back and
remember who I was before I knew *some* Perl. That person
was intrigued by Perl, a little scared, but its warts
were a 'turn on' to me, not a critism.
Jeff
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