The overweight cat was feeling drowsy having eaten a large meal, and lay down on the mat to sleep.

Concise, joined up, complete.

Software constitutes some of the most complex creations of man. Writing software is one of the most challenging endevours man undertakes, and requires education, skills and experience to do well.

You would not employ a lawnmower service apprentice to work on your Lexus or Mercedes. Or a flight attendant to fly your 767. Nor a med. student to perform open heart surgery. Why would you employ a 14 y/o to edit anything important?

Equally, employing unskilled, or semi-skilled persons to maintain your business software, and deskilling your programmers to write baby code in order that you can, is stupid and counter productive.

If you dumb down the code, the maintenance programmer will never aquire better skills. Supervise their work and train them. The rewards will outweight the costs.

"No one needs to know that you passed grade 13 English with a 97% average"

Then why is your highest priority item?

"As others have mentioned, spelling and grammer are very important. Learn to express yourself in English, first."

In reply to Re^4: improving the aesthetics of perl code by Anonymous Monk
in thread improving the aesthetics of perl code by tcf03

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