When another programmer looks at it, he as looking at it as another speaker of the language, but not as its target.

Oh please. Have you never debugged your own or another's code? Have you ever stepped through the code, simulating the machine's behavior either mentally or on paper? Of course you have, at the level of the higher level code (not at the level of the machine language I would expect). How else could you write an algorithm in Perl without being able to mentally simulate how the code gets executed? How is that not both speaker and audience of the high level code? You can only be a meaningful speaker of a language that you are also capable of being a meaningful listener of.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: don't { use Perl } by Anonymous Monk
in thread don't { use Perl } by erikharrison

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