I write code for physics research, and since my programs often have run times of months I find myself developing an incredibly strict style.

If I know an idiom that turns a task into a oneliner, I use it; if I don't I try to find or reason one out that I can add to my "dialect" and further cut my code. The goal is brevity. I want to be able to read my code as a few lines of colloquial instructions, all of which are familiar.

I always use warnings; use strict; use diagnostics in every script. I write the script, debug it, and then write either a commented header or a POD document telling what it does and how to use it. I never actually comment my code, since it's all in my dialect.

grep, map, and such don't see the light of day that often in my code just because I have little use for them. sort occasionally comes up. My data is usually in files being operated on my FORTRAN programs, or is in piddles under PDL. I got to use sort yesterday to arrange the frequencies of emitted photons in n=3 to n=2 transitions in hydrogen with fine structure corrections yesterday, but that was more for aesthetic reasons than need. Physics seems to be order independent...

In reply to Re: What is your Perl dialect? by Anonymous Monk
in thread What is your Perl dialect? by webfiend

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