Re^12: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers."

Most programmers tend to be overly optimistic about how expert they are and about how long it will take them to understand code that they haven't looked at in months.

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Re^13: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers." by Anonymous Monk on Jun 17, 2005 at 21:58 UTC
But I'll make the contention that anyone who becomes familiar with how "map" works, will find code using that operator easier to come back to, as opposed to coming back to code which uses willy-nilly "for" loops. I see it similar to GOTO's. Inexperienced programmers have no problem using them. Better programers though, appreciate the invariants that come with using higher level constructs. Besides, I wouldn't trust a programmer that knows perfectly well how "map" works, but decides that they prefer to reinvent their own list traversal schemes.	[reply]
Re^14: Thread on Joel on software forum : "I hate Perl programmers." by perrin (Chancellor) on Jun 17, 2005 at 22:23 UTC
Well, I disgaree with everything you just said, so we might as well just leave it at that.	[reply]