Not all your code is your own. In large organisations there can be multiple coding standards at work from internal and external organisations. What you suggest, isn't Perl specific and does not diminish the fact that Culture and syntax do play a part. If code readability is not a major part of the language design and syntax, then those coding standards are more likely to endorse stylistic elements that are difficult to read. If the culture of the users think obfuscation is cool then that too may slip by in code reviews by members of that culture. Perl code is maintainable. I, and many others have had to do it. It's just the language, and culture doesn't make it particularly easy. - Paddy.

In reply to Re^4: Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion by paddy3118
in thread Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion by oyse

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