Re: New Perl user looking for code to study

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Re^2: New Perl user looking for code to study by cog (Parson) on Apr 23, 2005 at 19:03 UTC
But do take a deep breath first and a deep breath after. ... And possibly a deep breath instead of.	[reply]
Re^2: New Perl user looking for code to study by revdiablo (Prior) on Apr 24, 2005 at 01:42 UTC
Writing obfuscated code is fun, and certainly a challenge, but it's really a very specialized niche. Learning how to do it may teach you a lot of Perl features, but it really doesn't teach you how to use them well. I think the latter is more important than the former, and hopefully you'll agree that obfuscation is not the best example of it.	[reply]
Re^3: New Perl user looking for code to study by bradcathey (Prior) on Apr 24, 2005 at 03:26 UTC
I agree, the camel is not a practical example of nice structured code. But it still is an amazing thing of beauty, which was my point. And if you can do that, you know you can probably do the day-to-day stuff well. —Brad "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot	[reply]