I find your justifictions for giving up Perl in favour of some cut down and simplified look-a-like, that meets with your personal approval, completely unpersuasive.

Just because you feel the need to single step through every clause and condition of your code in order to debug it, does not mean that everyone needs to resort to such primitive measures.

And if the time required to convert a single statement with a post condition into a pre-condition block with two statements, is a significant portion of the time it takes you to decide that it needs to be done, it probably expains why you spend so much time debugging.

And I find your suggestion that anything like a majority, or even a major minority of the programmers in this world need to have their code delivered in bite-sized morsels unproven. And frankly, vaguely insulting.

Imagine music without the black notes
Cos thirteen are harder than eight to learn
Or written without the use of chords
Cos multiple tones are hard to discern

Further, and just for good measure
Imagine that just one meter was used
Ev-ery thing would be mo-no-ton-ic
Then no one would ever be confused.
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Care to post a semi-substantial piece of your code? I'll re-write it to my standards, and then we can have a proper discussion about maintainability. And if you've any balls, you'll quit hiding behind anonymonk.

In the meantime. I should have stuck to "Just saying .."

In the meantime. I should have stuck to "Just saying ..""

I was thinking that in the meantime you could go @#$@# yourself.