Today I had a talk with a friend of mine, who's a Java programmer. We kind of agreed with him that by looking at the Java code you can moderately quickly realise if the person who wrote it is a decent programmer.

Java doesn't let the programmer so much of TMTOWTDI as the Perl does. When I'm programming Java I usually end up by looking up a method in the Java docs.

Also, as experience of a Java programmer grows, he makes more and more reusable object-oriented code.

Why I'm comparing these two languages? Again, I want to stress my statement, that it's easy to tell if a Java programmer is good or not. To do the same with a Perl programmer is more difficult.

As Foxub wrote in his meditation, the style means more to the Perl programmer. And the programming style can change from month to month. The Java programmer's path is more straight, with no curves.

So, just after lurking into a Perl programmer's code, would you take him/her into your project? Or dismiss him at once? Do you need a Perl programmer or a hacker?

In reply to Re: Self-improvement and TMTOWTDI by Heidegger
in thread Self-improvement and TMTOWTDI by Tanalis

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