A lot of people above have posted some good stuff about maintainable perl "style" and a few have posted about reusing a good library (that is CPAN); however I think maintainable code is maintainable code is maintainable code (apologies to Gertrude Stein).

It really doesn't matter what the language is (Perl, C, C++, Java, Python, etc) or the method (structural or object oriented). The key to maintainble code is decomposition (structural -> functions or subroutines, object oriented -> classes and methods) and ensuring your decomposed code follows the "High Cohesion/Low Coupling" mantra. Ensuring your methods/functions/subroutines/whatever do one thing well and "live" fairly independent (all necessary info is either "passed" in or lives within the object) is the nirvana of maintainable code.

-derby

In reply to Re: What is maintainable perl code? by derby
in thread What is maintainable perl code? by disciple

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