If your Meditation is indeed asking "should we be as concerned with following good practices with our (X?HT|X)ML markup as with our Perl code?" then I absolutely agree. We should follow good practices in anything we do. If not, at least make a note along the lines of "this HTML is messy and ad-hoc. Use at your own peril."

But if, as perrin also mentions, your Meditation is asking "should we use the 'latest HTML tricks' whenever possible?" then I might tend to disagree. Using tricks and using good common sense are completely different things. Perhaps I should have replied directly to him, but I think this is applicable to the main topic as well.

My basic point is that common sense and good practice matter, no matter what your task (unless, of course, one of the requirements of your task is to throw common sense and good practice out the window, and accomplish it by any means necessary). If you can't apply them to the thing you're doing, perhaps you should stop doing it..

In reply to Re: Do good Perl practices carry over to other coding? by revdiablo
in thread Do good Perl practices carry over to other coding? by bradcathey

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