in reply to Re: Perl forum ambassadors?
in thread Perl forum ambassadors?

Of course. I think you miss my point. My point isn't to go find some Java forum and troll for 30 pages about why Perl beats Java (Obviously it does! =] ). That won't do anything useful, which is what the linked article seems to talk about. My desire is to help people writing bad perl code to write good perl code.

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Re^3: Perl forum ambassadors?
by tcf03 (Deacon) on Sep 07, 2005 at 14:00 UTC
    When I started my current position as an AIX administrator - I was in awe at the amount of Perl code we had running on our systems - I though "Cool", I can do this. After rewriting several hundred scripts - its no longer cool. I tried explaining to people I work with why 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

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    is a good idea - they still don't get it, they say their code works fine. Case in point - we have a cgi script that allows us to control our printers - I took one look at it, added 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

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    Needless to say, the script(s) failed miserably, I rewrote the several thousand line long flub and they complain, because it doesn't look the same, and if I leave who will maintain my code? I find myself writing a lot of what I consider decent code to conform to the poor performance and bad interface standards that the people I work with are used to - In turn I penned the node perl programming for a living.

    I thank the Gods everyday for perlmonks, it provides some clarity to the fog.

    Ted
    --
    "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."
      --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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