I would add a few other trivial pieces of advice:

You're not writing code for the Obfuscated Perl contest (would any sensible programming manager hire somebody who put "winner 4 years on a row in the World Obfuscated <language of choice> contest" as a major award in their resume?).

Try to avoid Perlisms like the assumption that if(/.../) applies to $_. Be explicit, even if it looks "wordy" or "overly verbose".

Add use English, and use the English language forms for things like $|. (If there aren't use modules for other major languages, maybe there should be).

Find a coworker and have her or him try to figure out what you were doing, without your assistance.

Please, please, please, make comments meaningful, useful, properly spelled, and grammatical.

emc

In reply to Re: Meaning of Maintanability and Functionality in Coding Perl by swampyankee
in thread Meaning of Maintanability and Functionality in Coding Perl by neversaint

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